Worth reading (and blogging about if I had more time):
Lane Kenworthy on “the (il)logic of the new Laffer Curve“.
“Ezra Klein”:http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=01&year=2008&base_name=what_edwards_meant and “Jonathan Cohn”:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/01/30/why-john-edwards-won.aspx on John Edwards’ withdrawal from the race.
“Ricardo Hausman”:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/28b464a2-cf50-11dc-854a-0000779fd2ac.html on the curious inconsistencies between the macroeconomic advice that Washington Consensus folks doled out to east Asia, Russia and Latin America, and what the same people are saying today about the so-called sub-prime crisis.
“Gideon Rachman”:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f7aa8626-be00-11dc-8bc9-0000779fd2ac.html is skeptical about economic freedom will indeed produce political freedom in countries like China and Russia (I’ve been meaning to blog about this essay for a couple of weeks, but have been swamped with other commitments, and am realizing this is unlikely to change soon …).
“Eric Rauchway”:http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a8c2e4ae-387c-4e0a-b942-1d0a05b0d94d on Findlay and O’Rourke’s _Power and Plenty_ (a book that will probably be finding its way onto my IR syllabus next year).
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rawdawgbuffalo 01.31.08 at 3:21 am
True. But I think Edwards droppin out may have one of thre outcomes. hook, line and sinker”.
BillCinSD 02.01.08 at 3:12 am
Gideon rachman should consider how the US these days acts nearly identically to the Sino-Russian axis he discusses. propping up dictators, reduced space for democratic governance, ideas outside the government protected mainstream having difficulty getting heard. All happening with the US
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