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The Growth Question
Much of my writing about economic conditions has focused on the dangers of a prevailing commitment that growth is all that matters where economic health is concerned. I have even suggested that this fixation on growth is a primary means by which the...
Missile CHUTZPAH
This feels like it has been a long week. It has certainly not been a week without chutzpah; but it did not feel like a week in which any specific act of chutzpah immediately jumped out as being award-winning. In retrospect, however, I think that...
Financial CHUTZPAH
I always appreciate the chutzpah of speaking truth to power, and I see that the last time I did this the Chutzpah of the Week award involved military power. It thus seems appropriate that this week’s award acknowledge a similar act of speaking...
Globalization And Genocide
There are several dimensions to the “ignored reality” of the Holocaust examined by Timothy Snyder in his essay in the latest issue of The New York Review. Most important is his observation that “many if not more Jews were killed...
Too Many Crises?
Monday, March 24, 2008 Too Many Crises? This morning’s New York Times column by Paul Krugman, which I happen to read at SPIEGEL ONLINE because I have come to find them a more informed source than the Times often is, has the headline, “Financial...
