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The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
James K. Galbraith
October 20, 2008
01:43:47
While liberals continue to believe in the free market, conservatives have abandoned it all together. If conservatives no longer take free markets seriously, why should liberals?
Food Writing Forum: Edible Manhattan
Luis Jaramillo
October 16, 2008
01:02:15
From the Upper East Side to the East Village, Manhattan seems to have infinite choices of where to eat. Edible Manhattan is a new quarterly magazine that investigates this diverse food culture--more investigative journalism than food porn, more historical profile than restaurant gossip.
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the New Asian Age
Giovanni Arrighi
October 15, 2008
01:55:31
In the late 18th century, political economist Adam Smith predicted there would eventually be equalization of power between the conquering West and the conquered non-West. He described the possibility that China would become a non-capitalist market economy.
Intellect or Instinct: Must We Choose? A Contemporary View of the Death Drive
Intellect or Instinct: Must We Choose? A Contemporary View of the Death Drive
Otto F. Kernberg
October 10, 2008
01:31:04
The death drive was first defined by Signmund Freud as “an urge inherent in all organic life to restore an earlier state of things,” through death, destruction, or non-existence. Otto F.
It's the Economic Recovery Plan, Stupid
Laura D. Tyson
May 22, 2008
01:31:21
As debate on the recession moves from “if” to “when” to “how long,” The New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (CEPA) and the New America Foundation invite top economists and business executives to share their perspectives.
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