We describe the major features of a post-2012 international global climate policy architecture with three essential elements: a means to…
The global climate regime, as represented by the Kyoto Protocol, may be on a collision course with the global trade policy regime, as…
Chapter abstract: This chapter analyzes economic growth in Southeast Asia and the impact of the current recession on countries in the…
I approach the state of global currency issues by identifying eight concepts that I see as having recently “peaked” and eight more that I…
In international monetary economics our exam questions remain the same. Only the answers change, from decade to decade. I nominate five…
The gaps in the Kyoto Protocol that most badly need to be filled are: the absence of emission targets extending far into the future, the…
In recent work I have tried to revitalize the standpoint of humanity's commonly owning the earth. This standpoint has implications for a…
Years ago, when my son was a young teenager, the two of us stood at the bottom of Tuckerman’s Ravine in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.…
A broad consensus holds that increased medical capability—technology—is the primary driver of health spending growth. However, technology…
Spending on health care in markets with a larger percentage of primary care physicians (PCPs) is lower at any point in time than is true in…