Large among the benefits of my Foreign Affairs subscription are the “Subscriber Exclusives” – downloadable virtual issues that show FA has been attending for years to today’s hot button topics. A “Who Benefits from Trade?” compendium was made available last September. From oldest to newest the contributions range from G.B. Roorbach’s “Foreign Trade or Isolation”, … Continue reading Getting It Right But Still Not Getting It On Trade
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Branko’s Law: Inequality is eating away at Democracy
The anonymous blogger Pseudoerasmus recently returned to activity after a hiatus (not counting Twitter) of several months. Though he describes himself as a “hopeless positivist”, I think of Pseudo as a sort of empirical volcano; his trademark style is to confront plausible-sounding (but often complacent) economic-historical theories with a veritable ash-storm of contradicting facts. These … Continue reading Branko’s Law: Inequality is eating away at Democracy
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