Publications
WCFIA Publications
- What If 9/11 Had Never Happened?
- by Ferguson, Niall
- Publisher: The Daily Beast
- Publication Type: Op-ed
- How different would the world be today if there had been no 9/11? What if the attacks had been foiled or bungled? One obvious answer is that Americans would probably care a lot less than they do...
- Published Date: September 2011 More
- Texting Makes U Stupid
- by Ferguson, Niall
- Publisher: The Daily Beast
- Publication Type: Op-ed
- The good news is that today’s teenagers are avid readers and prolific writers. The bad news is that what they are reading and writing are text messages.
According to a survey carried out last...
- Published Date: September 2011 More
- You Were Expecting Statehood?
- by Ferguson, Niall
- Publisher: The Daily Beast
- Publication Type: Op-ed
- The Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’s bid for full U.N. membership was dead on arrival in New York. So why bother even raising the subject? The answer: to drum up international sympathy for the...
- Published Date: September 2011 More
- The Geniuses We'll Never Know
- by Ferguson, Niall
- Publisher: The Daily Beast
- Publication Type: Op-ed
- This essay is not about Steve Jobs. It is about the countless individuals with roughly the same combination of talents of whom we’ve never heard and never will.
Most of the 106 billion people...
- Published Date: October 2011 More
- Blame the Baby Boomers
- by Ferguson, Niall
- Publisher: The Daily Beast
- Publication Type: Op-ed
- After years when young Americans yearned only to be occupied on Wall Street, suddenly they have taken to occupying it. It’s easy to scoff at this phenomenon. I know, because I have.
This is...
- Published Date: October 2011 More
- Yes, Wall Street Helps the Poor
- by Ferguson, Niall
- Publisher: The Daily Beast
- Publication Type: Op-ed
- It was a scene to curdle liberal blood. A ballroom full of New York hedge-fund managers playing poker…to raise money for charter schools.
That’s where I found myself last Wednesday: at a Texas...
- Published Date: October 2011 More
- America as Argentina
- by Chinn, Menzie D.; Frieden, Jeffry
- Publisher: Harvard Magazine
- Publication Type: Magazine Article
- It has been a rotten economic decade for the United States. Why—and can anything be done to keep the stagnant new normal from persisting? In Lost Decades: The Making of America’s Debt Crisis and...
- Published Date: November 2011 More
- Offshoring and the Role of Trade Agreements
- by Antràs, Pol
- The rise of offshoring of intermediate inputs raises important questions for commercial policy. Do the distinguishing features of offshoring introduce novel reasons for trade policy intervention?...
- Publication Type: Published Paper
- Published Date: September 2011 More