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Posted by training on August 30th, 2011
By Heidi Garrett-Peltier, CPE Staff Economist
Environmental regulations are not “job-killers” after all.
GOP claims EPA costs jobs
Polluting industries, along with the legislators who are in their pockets, consistently claim that environmental regulation will be a “job killer.” They counter efforts to control pollution and to protect the environment by claiming that any such measures would increase costs and destroy jobs. But these are empty threats. In fact, the bulk of the evidence shows that environmental regulations do not [...] read more >
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Posted by jtellerelsberg on February 15th, 2008
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Posted by jtellerelsberg on September 14th, 2007
In last month’s New York Review of Books, Freeman Dyson leads off with an essay on “Our Biotech Future“. He predicts that biotechnology will, in this new century, become relatively cheap and widespread in a similar way to the cheapening and spreading of physics-based and computer technology over the past several decades.
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of [...] read more >
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Posted by jtellerelsberg on November 20th, 2006
Over at the Boston Review, Michael Piore and Andrew Schrank’s recent article (“Trading Up: An embryonic model for easing the human costs of free markets“) on labor in Latin America offers a spot of good news. They’ve been studying labor inspections throughout the region, from the Dominican Republic to Mexico to Brazil and Chile, and say they’ve found “an emergent model for reconciling market and social forces.”
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Posted by emilykawano on November 23rd, 2005
By Jonathan Teller-Elsberg, CPE Staff Economist
Most of the news we get about China has to do with the actions of the Chinese government or with broad economic trends. Only rarely, it seems, is there much reporting on the actions of Chinese people.
So the Washington Post and China correspondent Edward Cody deserve credit for a series of articles he’s written for the paper over the past year. Cody’s articles have described the struggles of Chinese factory workers and peasants [...] read more >
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Posted by emilykawano on May 19th, 2004
By Yahya Mete Madra
The 1990s saw a revived interest in the writings of Karl Polanyi (1886-1964). Given that capitalism is still in the process of being re-instituted everywhere across the globe; given that the expansions and contractions of capitalism cause endless social dislocation; given that the
recent wave of financial liberalization, labor market deregulation, and privatization has led to grave socio-economic costs; this revived interest should not be surprising. Those who wanted to understand and devise alternatives to capitalism have found [...] read more >
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Posted by emilykawano on March 24th, 2004
By Zhaochang Peng
Y.C. James Yen (1893-1990), a Chinese educator and social activist, developed a fourfold “rural reconstruction” approach to rural development in China during the 1920s. A resurgence of interest in his approach to development is currently underway in China, while his work has been continuously promoted by the institute he established in the Philippines in 1960.
James Yen’s Rural Reconstruction Movement promotes an integrated program of education, livelihood, public health and self-governance, which targets the interlocking problems of illiteracy, poverty, [...] read more >
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Posted by emilykawano on November 26th, 2003
By Noah Enelow
You would think the discovery of massive natural gas deposits in the heart of a developing country would present itself as an enormous windfall. All this country would have to do is find a source of financing, extract and refine the gas, sell part of it on the world market, and keep the rest, along with the profits, for domestic development.
Unfortunately, in Bolivia it hasn’t worked out quite so rosily. The battle over natural gas has exacerbated the [...] read more >
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Posted by emilykawano on January 22nd, 2003
By Léonce Ndikumana, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
American interest in Africa has been traditionally peripheral, opportunistic at best. In the past, aid to African countries supported client regimes that the United States and its allies needed to prevent the expansion of communism on the continent, as in the case of former Zaire under the late Mobutu Sese Seko. In these circumstances, the objective of economic aid was not economic development of African countries, but instead aid often contributed [...] read more >
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