How the Great Moderation Became a (Contained) Depression and What to Do About It

By Barry Z. Cynamon, Steven M. Fazzari & Mark Setterfield The Great Recession was deep and the subsequent recovery has been slower than most economists...

Asset Price Bubbles: Lessons From The Recent Financial Crisis

By Douglas Evanoff, George Kaufman & Anastasios G. Malliaris The successful performance of the U.S. economy during the ‘Great Moderation’ period of 1984 to 2006...

Keynes, Kant and Capital Flows

By Oliver Bush This is an abridged and altered version of Bush, O, Farrant, K and Wright, M (2011), ‘Reform of the International Monetary and...

What Does It Mean for an Executive to “Make” $1 Million?

By David F. Larcker, Allan McCall, & Brian Tayan Compensation figures commingle forward and backward, which makes it difficult for investors to understand what compensation...

99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We...

By Chuck Collins At the root of social movements around the world is the emergence, in the last three decades, of extreme inequalities of income,...

The Trend of History is Bigger than the Business Cycle

By Philip Auerswald In March, 2009, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman posted to his blog a chart of US industrial production in 1929 and 1930 (the...

The China Model: a Civilizational-State Perspective

By Zhang Weiwei China’s dramatic rise should be understood in the context of China as a civilizational state, i.e. an amalgam of the world’s oldest...

Does China Want to Buy Up Europe? Europe’s Crisis and China’s Reluctant Rise

By Roland Benedikter and Jae-Seung Lee In the occasion of Germany’s Angela Merkel’s visit to China on 3rd February 2012, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao stated...

ExecuJet Aviation Group meeting the development demands in Africa

By ExecuJet Aviation Group Operating in an environment in which Africa is still recovering from the global recession, ExecuJet have a crucial role to play...

Winning the Talent War in Emerging Markets: Women are the Answer

By Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid As global companies try to harness the growth and possibilities of emerging markets, the extraordinary energy, ambition and...

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China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth

By Danny Leipziger China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives? China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...

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