Mar 30, 2008 | Articles
When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the price of tortillas, many analysts pointed to biofuel as the culprit. Because of US government subsidies, American farmers were devoting more and more...
Mar 30, 2008 | Articles
There is now a solid consensus in the scientific community that if the change in global mean temperature in the 21st century exceeds 2.4 degrees Celsius, changes in the planet's climate will be large-scale, irreversible and disastrous. Moreover, the window of...
Mar 29, 2008 | Speeches
– Rise of China and, to a less extent, India as central event in Asia over the last 20 years. – China’s relation to the United States: China as manufacturer of world and US as key buyer of Chinese products; China has provided credit from its trillion...
Mar 28, 2008 | Speeches
Owing to the devastating impact of uncontrolled gyrations and permutations of speculative capital, there were calls for capital controls and a return to strong financial regulation following two of these crises: the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and the dot.com craze...
Mar 27, 2008 | Debates
The first brought us the gem that was central planning; and the second, the wondrous neoliberal economics that has reigned over the last 25 years. Despite opposite locations on the ideological spectrum, both approaches were united at a metaphysical level by the...
