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RODRIK
Greek lessons for the world economy

As Europe struggles with the global recession, governments debate the real meaning of unification...

SPENCE
Escaping the fossil fuel trap

There are many problems with fossil fuels. They are expensive and a source of political and supply volatility. As consumption rises globally, the costs associated with them will pr...

EICHENGREEN
Who should lead the IMF?

The International Monetary Fund, many say, has had a good crisis...

HARKIN
Stimulus versus austerity: The need to balance risk

Governments should run deficits in recessions and surpluses in booms. That is the basic tenet of Keynesian economics. Deficits support demand and output during a slump, while surpl...

RADKE
Cash and confidence

US private equity M&A is booming ó a trend that will continue through the rest of the year...

TURNER
The uses and abuses of economic ideology

Good economic thinking must provide multiple partial insights, based on varied analytical approaches...

SORMAN
Europe's vision deficit

It needs to be explained why the euro remains the best protection there is against inflation...

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Greek lessons for the world economy

The $140bn support package that the Greek government has fin...

Escaping the fossil fuel trap

Worst of all, they carry large and unsustainable costs in te...

Who should lead the IMF?

As recently as three years ago, many observers thought that...

The lessons of Vietnam

Of course, history never repeats itself exactly. Vietnam was...

Stimulus versus austerity: The need to balance risk

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Cash and confidence

US private equity firms have the cash and confidence to fuel...

The uses and abuses of economic ideology

John Maynard Keynes famously wrote that “the ideas of ...

Europe's vision deficit

In the Western part of Europe – the part that former U...

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