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January 18, 2008

private risk, public reward

Finance & Economics, Financial Crisis, History & Society, Politics & World Affairs

(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 modern corporation” as a key independent variable in the calculus of global security…)
Private Risk, Public Reward:
Stabilizing Frameworks and [...]


Filed by The Editor on January 18th, 2008

January 16, 2008

factors of destruction

Finance & Economics, History & Society, In Other Words, Politics & World Affairs

(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 [...]


Filed by The Editor on January 16th, 2008