Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson Crown Publishers, 2012, 529 pp. MIT economist Daron Acemoglu and Harvard political scientist and economist James A. Robinson have written a book, Why …
TED’s dominant political idea is the denial of politics—a refusal to acknowledge any real power struggle in public life.
Why hasn’t Occupy Wall Street taken off in Detroit?
On this eve of the 1980s, American capitalism is in the midst of a crisis that bewilders the conventional wisdom of both liberals and conservatives. The nation is, in a sense, in a period resembling the years between 1919 and …
For the past eighty years the basic economic cause of agrarian movements in the U. S., as well as of government efforts to subsidize agriculture, has been the difference between prices received and prices paid by the farmer. None of …
