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This Brookings blog insists that deficit reduction must be accomplished through cost-effective, rather than politically expedient, program...
Author: Ian Bremmer
Prepared by: Brian Morris
May/June 2009
"State Capitalism Comes of Age" by Ian Bremmer
Across the world, the free market is being overtaken by state capitalism, a system in which the state is the leading economic actor. How should the United States respond?
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