Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Economic Ideologies" produced 86 items.
| 1. The decline of the West revisited | February 6, 2012 |
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The West can no longer dictate the agenda, but its decline is not irreversible. Since the publication in 1918 of the first volume of Oswald Spengler's “The decline of the... | |
| 2. Darwin for economists | January 12, 2012 |
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A book that uses the natural world to take on the ‘movement libertarians'. “One century hence, if a roster of professional economists is asked to identify the... |
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| 3. Schadenfreude capitalism | January 12, 2012 |
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Leaders have gloated over the failings of others' economies – only to see their own economies slip on banana skins. The protracted financial and economic crisis discredited... |
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| 4. Is modern capitalism sustainable? | December 5, 2011 |
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Our latest version of capitalism has five major weak points. I am often asked if the recent global financial crisis marks the beginning of the end of modern capitalism. It... |
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| 5. Why no riots in central and eastern Europe? | October 20, 2011 |
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Some countries find it easier than others to fantasise about a world in which private profit gives way to the common good. Capitalism sucks, particularly if you don't know... | |
| 6. Who will help the poor? | September 2, 2011 |
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US philanthropy, the European state and the Asian family are all being eroded. So what are the poor's prospects? With the deepening of the economic crisis and the prospect... |
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| 7. The perils of protectionist policies | March 17, 2011 |
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While some EU member states have recovered well from the economic crisis, others are struggling, reinforcing protectionist instincts. World trade is back to its pre-crisis... |
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| 8. Why the siren calls of protectionism fall on deaf ears | January 20, 2011 |
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This crisis has focused policymakers' attention on how obsolete a protectionist approach would be in the 21st century. One of the more surprising aspects of the current... | |
| 9. Europe's northern lights | September 24, 2010 |
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China is a mirror that reflects Europe's weaknesses and strengths – and the ‘Scandinavian model' is one of those strengths. “The Northern Lights” was the title of a... |
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| 10. Running on the spot on trade | July 21, 2010 |
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The economic crisis has not produced a wave of protectionism. What can done now to advance trade? Meetings of G20 leaders regularly affirm the importance of maintaining and... |
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| 11. Striking a better tone for a long-running debate | March 4, 2010 |
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The Commission is, fortunately, taking a more realistic perspective on the challenges facing Europe's economy than it did a decade ago. The Lisbon Agenda, with its... |
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| 12. Protectionism is not the right way to recovery | January 21, 2010 |
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State aid has become an excuse for protectionism. The European Parliament rightly paid special attention to state aid in its hearing with commissioner-designate Joaquín... | |
| 13. Member states back extension of shoe tariffs | December 22, 2009 |
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EU import duties on certain types of footwear produced in China and Vietnam will be extended. Ministers from the European Union's member states today backed a proposal by... | |
| 14. The difficult search for social democracy | October 15, 2009 |
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Socialists will find little comfort in this collection of essays as they search for a path out of their crisis of belief and identity. This is a timely read. In Germany, the... |
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| 15. The human cost of a transformation | September 10, 2009 |
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A timely book examines the effects of Poland's shift from Communism to a market economy. It is difficult this year to escape significant anniversaries of events that... |
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| 16. America's Groucho Marxists | September 9, 2009 |
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Open eyes and minds trumped faith in communism, but, as the US healthcare debate suggests, reason and evidence sometimes fail to get a hearing in democratic discussion.... | |
| 17. The EU faces another five difficult years | June 11, 2009 |
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The unity of Europe's turn to the right was not intellectual in character and, politically, may yet prove superficial. The scale of the losses for the Socialist parties in... | |
| 18. Voting for a social Europe | June 4, 2009 |
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Now is the time for Europe to move forward and build a society on better, fairer, more equal foundations – and trade unions have a big part to play in the transformation.... |
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| 19. The enduring uselessness of political labels in the modern age | April 30, 2009 |
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The political arguments in post-communist countries are not easily reducible into the classic left-right split. The terms ‘left' and ‘right' do not mean much in politics... | |
| 20. The new revolt of the masses | April 27, 2009 |
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If the credo in 1989 was liberty, it is now equality. Is the current economic crisis uniting the democratic world in anger as much as in fear? | |
