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Summer Flashback: Anti-Corruption
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Robert Shiller: The Taming of 'Speculative Capitalism'
[Economist's View] Foreign Affairs, Alan Blinder, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton and vice chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, argued that the process of globalization has the potential to cause massive job loss in the future. Given that electronic communications technology has a powerful potential to replace employees with others who are thousands of miles away, we may now be seeing only the beginning of this process.
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April 27, 2007
Summer Flashback: Anti-Corruption
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April 24, 2007
Robert Shiller: The Taming of 'Speculative Capitalism'
[Economist's View] Foreign Affairs, Alan Blinder, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton and vice chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, argued that the process of globalization has the potential to cause massive job loss in the future. Given that electronic communications technology has a powerful potential to replace employees with others who are thousands of miles away, we may now be seeing only the beginning of this process.
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United States Wrestles With China Over Intellectual Property
[GOPOLI] It is a well known fact that the poor, oppressed people of China are ripping off the entertainment industry by illegally selling movies, music and other intellectual property. With all the noise in the United States over the violations, China has taken minor steps to clean up.
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April 20, 2007
The Unsustainable World Economy
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Kenneth Rogoff: Time for Change at the World Bank
[Economist's View] The World Bank at bay, by Kenneth Rogoff, Commentary, Project Syndicate: Will World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz's troubles finally catalyse real change at the World Bank? Will there finally be an end to the archaic practice by which the president of the United States unilaterally appoints the head of the world's most important development agency?
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April 17, 2007
Journamalism from Sebastian Mallaby on Paul Wolfowitz
[Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal] Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations can't quite screw his courage up to the sticking place enough to call for World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz's to resign or be fired: Sebastian Mallaby - The World Bank, Stuck In the Mud - washingtonpost.com: The scandal centers on the pay of people around Paul Wolfowitz, the World Bank president. Kevin Kellems, an unremarkable press-officer-cum-aide who had previously worked for Wolfowitz at the Pentagon, pulls down $240,000 tax-free -- the low end of the salary scale for World Bank vice presidents, who typically have PhDs and 25 years of development experience.
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523 The Economics of Anarchy
- Published: Nov 22, 2006
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April 13, 2007
The Ocean Conservancy: International Trade Endangers Sharks
[easyVegan.info] Proposals to protect sawfish, spiny dogfish and porbeagle sharks under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) will be considered in June by 170 CITES member countries. These proposals are vital to reducing extinction risk for these vulnerable and depleted species, but they face an uphill battle and need strong public support, particularly in the United States.
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T2 Explains It All - Economics
- Published: Apr 9, 2007
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- Recorded on: 2007-04-09
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April 10, 2007
Tit for Tat
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Serbia's coming economic boom
- Published: Feb 23, 2007
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April 06, 2007
Costs and Benefits of Preferential Trade Agreements
[Economist's View] 12 (5), 2005, 750-75), preferential trade agreements involve the southern partner receiving better market access for existing exports, in return for “reforms” deep within its borders .“Reforms” mean putting the government under new constraints not to use industrial policy instruments to accelerate production diversification and upgrading - instruments of the kind that most of the now developed countries used during their rapid development phase.
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Sharpen up with the INTA
[Sharpen up with the INTA - Adsila log] “INTA’s Annual Meeting offers a one-credit course on International Trademark Law and Practices for its student members, young practitioners and other interested attendees (only students are eligible to receive credit). This accredited two day course, taught by professors and practitioners of trademark law from various jurisdictions around the world, is designed for students interested in the practice of trademark law, and presents a comparative analysis of trademark laws and various international and regional treaties.
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