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Rothschild explores economics’ human side
by Lavoie, Amy
Publisher: Harvard University Gazette
Publication Type: Newspaper Article
Blackmail and attempted murder are not typically studied as part of economic history. However, a credit crisis among 18th century French silk and brandy merchants led to just such dramatic...
Published Date: May 2008 More
It's not the price that causes hunger
by Paarlberg, Robert L.
Publisher: International Herald Tribune
Publication Type: Op-ed
International prices of rice, wheat and corn have risen sharply, setting off violent urban protests in roughly a dozen countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. But is this a "world food...
Published Date: April 2008 More
Turkey's Constitutional Crisis—From Lose-Lose to Win-Win
by Martin, Lenore G.
Publisher: Middle East Progress
Publication Type: Op-ed
The March 31, 2008 decision of Turkey’s Constitutional Court to hear a case that could bring down the governing Justice and Development Party (also known in Turkey as AKP) has provoked a...
Published Date: April 2008 More
Former fellow establishes program at Weatherhead
by Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Publication Type: Press Release
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has established a new Program on Transatlantic Relations, thanks to a donation by Pierre Keller of Geneva. Keller was a fellow in 1979–80 at the...
Published Date: April 2008 More
A 'declaration of principles' for the Mideast
by Kelman, Herbert C.
Publisher: Boston Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
HAIM RAMON, a vice prime minister of Israel, recently stated that Israel hoped to reach agreement with its Palestinian negotiating partners by the end of 2008 on a "declaration of...
Published Date: March 2008 More
Consumers Want to Do the Right Thing
by Schorow, Stephanie
Publisher: Harvard University Gazette
Publication Type: Newspaper Article
Data suggest buyers willing to pay more to humane producers. A majority of consumers want to do the right thing. That is, in numerous studies, consumers say that they are willing to pay more for...
Published Date: March 2008 More
Toward a Liberal Realist Foreign Policy: A Memo for the Next President
by Nye, Joseph S., Jr.
Publisher: Harvard Magazine
Publication Type: Magazine Article
On January 20, you will inherit a legacy of trouble: Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, North Korea for starters. Failure to manage any one of them could mire your presidency and sap your political...
Published Date: March 2008 More
The rebirth of American civic life
by Putnam, Robert D.
Publisher: Boston Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
In the mushrooming procedural debate about Democratic superdelegates and the uncontested Florida and Michigan primaries, more is at stake than the identity of the presidential nominee or even the...
Published Date: March 2008 More
Africa's organic farms
by Paarlberg, Robert L.
Publisher: International Herald Tribune
Publication Type: Newspaper Article
Approach any serious-looking college student in the Boston area, where I teach, and ask them what kind of food and farming system they would like to see. Most will say they don't want food from...
Published Date: February 2008 More
Reading the Tea Leaves in Pakistan
by Allison, Graham T., Jr.
Publisher: Boston Globe
Publication Type: Op-ed
Presdent Pervez Musharraf's stunning defeat in Monday's elections in Pakistan represents a decisive rejection of what his opponents called his policies of "subservience" to the United...
Published Date: February 2008 More
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