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... Institute 2006 B M K S Sheri Berman is an associate professor of politics a t Barnard. College. She is the author of The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe’s Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Capitalism and Poverty Sheri...

...Enzo Traverso In his racism, misogyny, and xenophobia, Donald Trump resembles a 20th-century fascist-but historian Enzo Traverso argues the likeness is superficial. Trumpism is the product of recent transformations of capitalism, and thus he embodies something new, dangerous, and not yet fully...

... and not necessarily those of Goldman Sachs. Capital Comes Calling on India L. Brooks Entwistle One of the toughest tickets to come by to­ ond, investors have developed an “invest­ day is a seat, any seat, on a flight from the ment thesis” with respect to India based on world’s financial...

...K. S. Jomo; R. K. Ramazani Copyright © 2002 World Policy Institute 2002 CORRESPONDENCE Malaysian Capital Controls & The Iranian Coup To the editor: I am writing in response to the generous developing countries wishing to obtain fi­ review by John Miller of Malaysian...

... prompted Lula to ecstasies of patriotic feeling and an unexpected paean to capitalism, but the global financial community largely gave the sale a thumbs-down, despite its size. Most of the stock, $48 billion, was purchased by the government or state-led companies, banks and pension funds, and most...

...Urvashi Kaul Urvashi Kaul explores the use of Social Capital Credits, a tool used to reinforce and create grass-roots community networks in cities across the world. She writes about her experiences in Kumasi, Ghana, implementing a program where people perform socially beneficial activities to earn...

...Karoline Kan Beijing is the cosmopolitan capital; Tianjin is an international harbor—but the surrounding Hebei province is mired in poverty. Beijing-based writer Karoline Kan outlines China’s plan to integrate these three areas, known collectively as Jing-Jin-Ji, and raise the living standards...

... For nine years, from 1992 through 2000, James Chace, historian, philosopher, trained in the classics and educated in the great capitals of the world, served as editor of World Policy Journal. It was a time of enormous change and turmoil in global affairs, the end of one century and the arrival...

... another Capital sales agent using a different name and accent. The Capital network’s usual nominee directors—Richard Henstock and Robert Ross White—were listed as Agri Firma directors and shareholders in the U.K. Henstock’s signature would be listed on the certificates. Confidential documents authored...

..., especially political economist and long-time critic of South Korea.2 Kuala Lumpur officialdom, would appear Second, Malaysia was a favorite destina­ in the same year that Beacon Press reissued tion of financial capital, capturing more of The Great Transformation. In his forward...

... successful enterprises that create jobs and book revenues, they first need to overcome numerous obstacles before they can attract investment capital and put their countries on a growth trajectory. These hurdles are wide-ranging. Poor regulatory environments, weak governance, complicated bureaucracies...

..., into calamities. vides enough capital to repair the balance sheet, or the country spirals into default. In The Machine Revs Up either case the economy contracts sharply. Volatility refers to changes in the values of Contrary to popular...

... in their “discovery” of these markets. a run on the Thai baht in July 1997? How The crash of October 1987 was nothing well did we understand the underlying more than a blip, so insistent were the forces at work? How dependent were we flows of capital. Net inflows to all emerging upon...

... the cost to local not thousands— of times greater than they cultures and economic equality to environ­ were a hundred years ago.1 Much of this ac­ mentalists who believe the earth is being celeration has occurred since 1950, with a systematically ravaged by capitalism run powerful upsurge...

... International Monetary Fund and the U.S. ing, and because their financial sectors were Treasury. Monies that had not been bor­ not yet sophisticated enough to direct to rowed by nations ended up being owed by productive uses the increased capital that them, and thus assumed...

.... No matter that he was to be just one of the two men among 60 speakers. Lurking beneath this outrage was, of course, the reaction of the Clinton wing of the Democratic Party to Sanders: its uneasiness with Sanders’ leftist critique of today’s global capitalism. When Sanders emphasizes economic problems, he...

... we have made a number of proposals, some of which have been adopted by governments and policymakers to help stimulate financing and access to capital for the 23 million small- and medium-sized enterprises in the European Union that could easily help at least 26 million workers. We believe...

... day in November 1998, six­ affectionately as the “Big Mango.” (The teen months into the Asian economic cri­ Thai capital is home to 10-15 percent of sis, Bangkok’s new Emporium Mall seemed the country’s population and three-quarters more like a mortuary than a commercial cen­ of its...

... there too much capital— in the form of subprime mortgages, derivatives, and so on— that turned out not to be “dead,” but actually non-existent or even poisonous? De Soto: Many years ago, when asked why he thought the United States was doing so well, Alan Greenspan said, “It’s information technology...

... remote. The reason has a lot to do with the overall financial structure of China. Since it is a country with a relatively closed capital account and owes very little debt to foreigners relative to its reserves, the Chinese monetary authorities have many tools at their disposal to recapitalize their banks...