I'm in Zurich today to give a talk on economic inequality. While preparing my talk, I came across an article by Branko Milanovic in the Review of Economics and Statistics.
On the Eastern Front, the German army was imploding under the weight of 5 million advancing infantrymen of Russia's Red Army. At the same time, Allied four-engine bombers, with superb long-range fighter escorts, at last were beginning to destroy German transportation and fuel infrastructure. Yet Hitler held off for another 11 bloody months. Why?
As we’re at the midpoint of the work-week, it’s a good time to ask which of these stories of the past 72 hours mean the most to the Republican presidential field.
Last week journalist Ilana Dayan interviewed President Obama on her popular Israeli prime-time investigative television program. This was the latest in the president’s campaign to take his case for a nuclear agreement with Iran -- and against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- directly to the people, particularly the Jewish people.
Regular Flypaper readers know that I’ve been skeptical of the “college for all” movement, but I’m 200 percent behind the “college for more” movement. Among other reasons, that’s because completing college brings a strong economic payoff, particularly for young people growing up in poverty.
First, there was the "drone strike cake," called "notorious" by Rolling Stone Magazine. Then there was the "Zero Dark Thirtieth Birthday Cake," because, well, just because.
Recent debates in both houses of Congress over whether to continue fully funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund, for example, emphasized the call for more access. The LWCF has been a major source for financing trails and purchasing more public land.
Although today there is a flood of books on the law of armed conflict and emerging technologies of weapons (such as armed UAVs, or autonomous or highly automated weapons), or specific weapons and the law (such as nuclear weapons, or chemical weapons, or landmines), there are surprisingly few book-length treatments of the law of weapons as such under LOAC/IHL.
The Hong Kong Umbrella Revolution Collection at the Hoover Institution includes flyers, leaflets, printed matter, photographs, and memorabilia relating to the pro-democracy political movement. These materials provide valuable evidence of a pivotal moment for the city’s democracy and its complicated relations with the Chinese mainland.
Hoover Institution fellow Thomas Sargent gives a lecture on "some new economic ideas brought by economic theory and how efforts to develop computational tools promise to help macroeconomists perform quantitative analyses that can inform policy choices" at PASC15 in Switzerland.
Earlier this week at the German Wirtschaftstag held in Berlin on the heels of G7 meetings, the discussions on Greece had many elements of a high stakes “prisoner’s dilemma” -- a game theory that demonstrates why two entities might not cooperate even when seemingly it would be in the parties' or individuals' best interests.
Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis is a legend among Marines, and he’s credited much of his success on the battlefield to reading. Now, thanks to a recent interview with History Net, we know what’s at the top of his reading list.
One of the most consequential of these policymakers, Martin Anderson, died this January. Over the last decade, Anderson, a longtime fellow at the Hoover Institution, achieved renown for his prodigious scholarship documenting the writings and political achievement of Ronald Reagan.
