Commentary

June 13, 2011
A French Cure for the Resource Curse

NEW YORK – The campaign to ensure that companies engaged in extractive activities disclose all of their payments in their…
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June 9, 2011
Food for Revolution

PRINCETON – Summits are defined by their location. It is quaint that the 1933 World Economic Conference took place in…
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June 7, 2011
Has Economic Power Replaced Military Might?

CAMBRIDGE – At the Cold War’s end, some pundits proclaimed that “geo-economics” had replaced geopolitics. Economic power would become the…
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June 6, 2011
Risky Advice

BRIGHTON – Why do we seem to be witnessing an increasing number of nasty technological surprises? Indeed, this year’s Fukushima…
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June 2, 2011
The Ayatollah and the Witches

WASHINGTON, DC – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has now made the mistake that all Iranian presidents make: he has challenged the authority…
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June 1, 2011
Sex and Surveillance

NEW YORK – It is impossible to hear about sexual or sex-crime scandals nowadays – whether that involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn…
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May 31, 2011
Life without Doha

BRASILIA – In a recent commentary, I drew on the Interim Report of the High-level Trade Experts Group, appointed by…
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May 30, 2011
The Renminbi’s Journey to the World

BEIJING – Recently, HSBC bank released an upbeat survey predicting that China’s currency, the renminbi (RMB), will become one of…
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May 30, 2011
Ten Reasons Why China is Different

NEW HAVEN – The China doubters are back in force. They seem to come in waves – every few years,…
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May 19, 2011
Will The US Have A “Debt Crisis”?

WASHINGTON, DC – John Boehner, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, is leading the Republican Party’s charge on…
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