Jay mandle devotes most of his argument to setting up a straw man—the notion that those of us who have opposed Washington’s corporate-driven global economic policies are “protectionists,” ignorant of the textbook benefits of expanded trade, or else people with …
Has Globalization Gone Too Far? by Dani Rodrik. Washington D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1997. 128 pp. $20.95. Mainstream economists are getting a little nervous. The market for their ideas is booming, of course. The neoliberal enterprise—deregulation, privatization, and the …
In the debate over the Mexican bailout last January, U.S. stockbrokers, the Mexico lobby, and the mainstream media pressed hard for the rescue package. Their argument rested on the premise that economics had replaced military action as the basis for …
Bill Clinton’s charge that “we are working harder for less” was repeated at campaign bus stops all the way to the White House. Echoing a decade of policy debate among Democrats, he talked of the need for America to seek …
A Democratic member of Congress recently asked me over to his office to discuss the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). I explained why I thought it was a bad idea. The three members of his staff who were there …
Economists can predict few things in this world with certainty. Despite our confident manner, we really do not know what the unemployment rate will be in six months or what interest rates will be in a year. Or whether in …
Day of Reckoning by Benjamin Friedman Random House, 1988, 323 pp., $19.95 The polls tell us that worship of laissez-faire is on the wane. Collapsing bridges, the Savings and Loan swindles, rising homelessness, the antics of Leona Helmsley and Ivan …
“Dodge Main”—the name of the huge Chrysler plant in Hamtramck—was often the first English phrase learned by Poles arriving in Detroit. Over half a century it produced 14 million cars and helped integrate into mainstream society successive waves of immigrants …
“Dodge Main”—the name of the huge Chrys- ler plant in Hamtramck—was often the first Eng- lish phrase learned by Poles arriving in Detroit. Over half a century it produced 14 million cars and helped integrate into mainstream society successive waves …
Late in 1976, the French Ministry of State for the Interior banned distribution of a book by Jean-Paul Alata, Prison d’Afrique (Editions du Seuil); the action was taken on the basis of a law of July 29, 1881 that authorizes …
