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Spence on Charlie Rose

via Charlie Rose
Friday, May 27, 2011

Michael Spence, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, discussed his new book, The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World, with Charlie Rose.

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Exiting the Euro Crisis

by Charles Calomirisvia Defining Ideas
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Are the currency’s days numbered?

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The "Fair" Trade Delusion

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Defining Ideas (Hoover Institution)
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Why won’t the president move forward on bilateral free trade agreements...?

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Dissecting Chinese Growth: How Long Will It Continue?

by Paul R. Gregoryvia What Paul Gregory Is Writing About
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Academic specialists know a great deal, but they are not good at sharing their results with general readers...

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Can Poor Countries Afford Democracy?

by Gary S. Beckervia Becker-Posner Blog
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

...[W]hile the effects of democracy on economic performance are controversial, democracies can have some economic advantages for poor as well as rich countries...

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China Development Forum

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Michael Boskin, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and Michael Spence, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Philip H. Knight Professor Emeritus of Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, were the keynote speakers at the China Development Forum at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing.

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Chile’s Chicago Boys and Latin America’s Other Market Reformers

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

University of Chicago (UC) free market economists have turned up for decades around the world, from the winners’ circle at Nobel ceremonies to hands-on reforming of economic systems in South America. But the first truly methodical though flexible implementation of market reforms in the mid–twentieth century was by the Chicago Boys in Chile. The collection consists primarily of interviews with the Chicago Boys, Chile’s cadre of market-oriented economists mostly trained at the UC who sprang to public attention after the military coup that ousted Socialist president Salvador Allende in September 1973.

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Let the Rich Get Richer

by Richard A. Epsteinvia Defining Ideas
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Income redistribution will not solve our nation’s budgetary problems

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Munger on microfinance, savings, and poverty

via EconTalk
Monday, April 18, 2011

In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with Mike Munger of Duke University, microfinance and culture.

Analysis and Commentary

Changing China’s Growth Path

by Michael Spencevia Project Syndicate
Thursday, April 14, 2011

The goal of China's new Five-Year Plan is to recompose (not expand) aggregate demand, in order to sustain growth and avoid the diminishing-returns trap that is the principal risk of the current investment pattern. But changing that pattern will require many simultaneous transitions...

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