The recent volatility in the stock market has raised questions about its causes and its consequences for asset prices and economic growth. With the 2008…
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The recent volatility in the stock market has raised questions about its causes and its consequences for asset prices and economic growth. With the 2008…
A few months ago, in the course of trying to reestablish contact with a dear friend, Jonathan Schell, I learned, to my consternation, that he…
Understandably, the literature has often seen gender inequality as a human rights issue. Article 7 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights introduces the concept…
In pursuing meaningful sustainable development, and investing in conservation and redressing the environmental damage caused by decades of neglect, we need to better explore and…
I’ve suggested recently that although high economic growth in recent decades has greatly improved average life expectancy, infant mortality, and other leading indicators policymakers and…
Global development as a universal objective to improve people’s social and economic wellbeing is a relatively recent concept. It was first embodied in the United…
Since the vast majority of the problems which humanity faces today are global in nature, the world needs more, not less international cooperation. Major planetary…
In his fine book The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization, professor Thomas Homer-Dixon refers to the projected divergence in average…
EEOC 35th Anniversary Art ContestChelsea Lapp, Age 11Sixth GradeFlying Hills Elementary SchoolEl Cajon, CA We have learned much over the past several decades about the…
The relationship between growth and income inequality is more complex than the one between growth and poverty, and has been the subject of considerable study.…