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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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November 6, 2005
Economics
What risks should the American workforce assume in a more global economy?
Sebastian Mallaby had an interesting column in last Monday's Washington Post. Mallaby highlights what he calls the biggest economic argument of the day -- namely, what role does the government have…
December 5, 2006
Economics
Working to privatize Social Security = working against free trade … and a bit more on the politics of agricultural trade
Privatizing (or eliminating) social security and eliminating the United States remaining barriers to trade fit together well in theory. Both consistent with a philosophy of reducing the government'…
July 2, 2012
Politics and Government
Hola, Enrique Peña Nieto: President-Elect of Mexico
Enrique Peña Nieto had a very good weekend. While Americans were grumbling about record-breaking heat and residents of Washington, D.C., were learning to live without air conditioning because powerfu…
April 4, 2005
United States
McKinsey says the trade deficit does not matter
What is good for IBM (oops, Lenovo) is good for America.OK, that is a cheap shot.Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal published a column by Jon Hilsenrath that drew on work by Diana Farrell and the McKins…
March 27, 2006
United States
Good thing Michael Mandel read my 2004 paper, not my 2005 paper -
With the 2004 paper on US external sustainability, there is at least some possibility that Nouriel's and my dire forecasts will prove to be right. The core argument of that paper is that the contin…