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3-4-2008 10:21 PM
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Economic Punditry: Miracles and Mirages

Trying to predict nations' future economic performance is a good way to embarrass yourself. In the late 80s and early 90s, management theorists extolled the virtues of the Japanese and German models: only a few years later, in the Anglophone world a 'new economy' was breaking loose and the accumulated series of insights into the art of teutonic or Asian management were quietly dropped or ignored. Such turnarounds are frequent in economic history - but why do they happen when, where, and how they do?
3-4-2008 10:23 PM
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Careering into the Future

We are hurtling into the future faster and more recklessly than ever before. World economic growth has been accelerating more or less steadily since the 18th century - today driven by the outstanding pace of growth in China and India, which together now account for over a third of the global population. Meanwhile, technological progress is also taking place at a faster rate than at any previous time in human history...
The Dismal Condition of Democracy - Decline & Fall?

Increasingly, a number of trends suggest citizens are becoming less capable of and committed to participating in the democratic process. A more complex, time-pressured society,...
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