How should one evaluate the agreement reached in Paris this month at the United Nations climate change conference? No sooner was the deal announced on Dec. 12 than the debate erupted. Some avid enviro ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-18
China's current economic woes have largely been viewed through a single lens: the government’s failure to let the market operate. But that perspective has led foreign observers to misinterpret some of ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-07
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has the chance to become to his country what South Korea's Kim Dae-jung and Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva were to theirs -- a man of the left who moves toward ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-20
US President Barack Obama is still pressing to obtain Trade Promotion Authority and use it to conclude negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment P ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-11
Reading Thomas Piketty’s influential new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, one might conclude that the world has not been this unequal since the days of robber barons and kings. That is odd, ...More
EJ Insight2014-05-15