Title Game Theories http://walrusmagazine.com/article. pl?sid=04/05/06/1929205 On-line fantasy games have booming economies and citizens who love their political systems. Are these virtual worlds the best place to study the real one?

An Elder Challenges Outsourcing's Orthodoxy By STEVE LOHR t 89, Paul A. Samuelson, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, still seems to have plenty of intellectual edge and the ability to antagonize and amuse

Nagging doubts about the benefits of globalisation, and a look at the evidence WHEN David Ricardo, a 19th-century economist, criticised England's protectionist corn laws, he based his argument on the notion of \comparative costs\,these days called comparative advantage The idea, in brief, is that all countries can raise their living standards through specialisation and trade. Even if one country

The Man Who Took My Job: A NAFTA Journey By Dan Baum Originally published in Rolling Stone April 27, 200 David Quinn spent what President Clinton calls the longest period of economic growth in our entire history\tumbling down the economic ladder-from having a shot at being the first in his family

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Home What's New Site Map Site Index International Monetary Fund Search About the IMFIMF at Work IMF Finances Country Info News Publications An Open Letter By Kenneth Rogoff Economic Counsellor and Director of Research. International Monetary Fund To Joseph Stiglitz

The title of this paper is a play on that of an admirable recent book by the philosopher Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life(1995). Dennett's book is an examination of the reasons why so many intellectuals remain hostile to the idea of evolution through

A sketch of a proof for why fiscal policy does not work under flexible exchange rates (by special request from Messrs. Eubank and Heidlage) The easiest way to show that fiscal policy does not work under flexible exchange rates was the one we covered in class on Monday!

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From The Economist print edition Panos Is economic inequality around the world getting better or worse? CRITICS of capitalism are convinced that the gap between rich and poor is widening across the world. For them, the claim amounts almost to an article of faith: worsening inequality is a sure sign of the moral bankruptcy of \the system\. Whether rising inequality should in fact be seen