Features
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Citizen Keynes
Skidelsky's dazzling biography gets Keynes the man just right, and his economics somewhat wrong.
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Voters in the Crosshairs
New technologies were supposed to enable campaigns to reach more voters. Instead, they ended up fragmenting and alienating much of the electorate.
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Depressing Our Way to Recovery
Deficit obsession is a sure recipe for sluggish growth.
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Spheres of Affluence
The fantasy of free trade still commands broad allegiance despite mounting evidence that it's not optimal for either economic growth or national interest.
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A Few Good Men
More men are taking family life seriously. But they are still a minority, and the system still punishes those who choose the daddy track.
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System Crash
Supposedly, a knowledge economy produces competitiveness and secure jobs. IBM employees in upstate New York learned otherwise.
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Keynes, Einstein, and Scientific Revolution
Economics follows the wrong model of physics. Keynes appreciated that jobs, savings, and growth are all relative.
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Altered States
The globalized economy disarms the nation-state. We need a blend of familiar Keynesian insights and new institutions.
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Back by Popular Demand
With mass unemployment again afflicting the world, it's time to rediscover Keynes -- the real Keynes.
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Imagebusters
Revulsion against television violence offers cheap indignation. Unfortunately, imagebusting does little about the deeper sources of our violent society.
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The Evasion of Politics
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Ad Missions
Insurance companies aren't just selling policies. They're selling ideology too.
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Friend or Faux?
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Delivering Health Reform
Can the Clintons find the votes for health care reform without wrecking the logic of universal coverage, cost-control, and managed competition?
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The Joys of Recession
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Government Lite
Two cheers for the Gore Report. The vice president is good on repairing the means, oddly silent on the ends.
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Back to the Future
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Can Markets Govern?
Let's have responsive government, but in the end a citizen cannot be reduced to a consumer.
