2,075 Results for:

May 28, 2005

A prediction: China will eventually protect its agricultural sector

You know, the global norm is not free trade in agriculture ... If China doesn’t want its peasants to compete against subsidized US and European agricultural exports, I suspect that it has a range of …

June 14, 2005

China
How to explain China’s success?

If China were growing slowly, there would be no shortage of potential explanations.Free labor market in China? Not even close. The household permit system is an enormous impediment to free labor mo…

August 1, 2005

China
Summarizing China in one paragraph …

is hard, but James McGregor gave it a go in the Sunday Washington Post: It is difficult to overstate the transformation that has swept China in the past 15 years. To frame it in terms of comparable h…

August 24, 2005

United States
Are we ignoring the United States’ strengths?

Anantha Nageswaran of Libran Asset Management in Singapore has submitted a set of (lengthy) comments that respond, in some sense, to many of the points I and others have raised on this blog.   Check …

September 16, 2005

Economics
Happy (late) blog birthday

It has been a bit over a year since I started doing this.   I did not anticipate the blog would generate half the audience it has.   I often have focused on relatively obscure topics: the global bala…