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[18 Jan 2008 | No Comment | 104 views]
private risk, public reward

An expanded look at the role corporations and hospitable business environments have played in stabilizing the anarchic system of international relations. This work is based on an earlier paper which focused on the rise of the corporation as a key variable in the calculus of global peace and security…

history & society, in other words, world affairs »

[16 Jan 2008 | No Comment | 69 views]
factors of destruction

In this recent Times OpEd, Rochester economics professor Steve Landsburg points out how easily John Q. Public overlooks cause and effect in 21st century markets.

Let’s review: 1) goods and services require labor and capital to produce; 2) the price of labor and capital impact an item’s ultimate price; 3) factors of production are much less expensive in the developing world; 4) a decades-long public war on inflation in the developed world has prevented the price of goods from increasing in step with wages; however, 5) wage growth is now slowing and inflation has reached a 17-year high; thus 6)…