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NOTHING in my life has made me as pessimistic about development aid as the course of the American intervention in Afghanistan. The New York Times ' Graham Bowley reports that unsurprisingly, the country is set to drop into a drastic recession as foreign aid dries up over the next few years.
Afghanistan: Violating the prime directive again
Does Austerity Promote Economic Growth? - Robert J. Shiller - Project Syndicate
Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space Comments View/Create comment on this paragraph NEW HAVEN – In his classic Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits (1724), Bernard Mandeville, the Dutch-born British philosopher and satirist, described – in verse – a prosperous society (of bees) that suddenly chose to make a virtue of austerity, dropping all excess expenditure and extravagant consumption.
Pandit Does Davos, 0.1% Gloat, Madness Reigns: Jonathan Weil
Sometimes a single fact stands out amid all the clutter, offering a flash of insight and clarity.
It is one of those peculiarities of the Israeli political system that right now, under a stable government and a strong prime minister, there is almost a consensus in the Knesset that a date for early elections will be called soon.
Misplaced expectations for change in Israel Noam Sheizaf
Why are so many Americans in prison? - Inside Story Americas
The US has the highest prison population in the world - some of whom have been subjected to lengthy sentences for relatively minor crimes.
Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America
A prison is a trap for catching time. Good reporting appears often about the inner life of the American prison, but the catch is that American prison life is mostly undramatic—the reported stories fail to grab us, because, for the most part, nothing happens .
The Nature of Oil: Reconsidering American Power in the Middle East
Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil .
Rod Hill and Tony Myatt are Professors of Economics at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John and Fredericton (respectively). Their new book, The Economics Anti-Textbook is available from Amazon. They also run a blog at www.economics-antitextbook.com .
Mainstream Economics as Ideology: An Interview with Rod Hill and Tony Myatt — Part I
Sadik J. Al-Azm: Time Out of Joint
OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2004 Archives Time Out of Joint Western dominance, Islamist terror, and the Arab imagination Sadik J.
