Articles & Reports

SEP 26, 2006 • Article

Thomas Pogge proposes that pharmaceutical innovators should have the option to forego the conventional claim to exclusivity in favor of an alternative patent that would ...

SEP 18, 2006 • Article

As with all of humanity’s efforts to tinker with nature, GM food has its share of benefits and risks—as well as vocal dissidents ...

SEP 7, 2006 • Article

National trade deficits usually get worse before they get better.This pattern resembles a "J" on graphs and so economists call it the J curve. ...

AUG 23, 2006 • Article

By the time diamonds reach New York City shops, most have made an arduous journey from large dirt pits in Africa, passing through the hands ...

AUG 18, 2006 • Article

The Paris Club celebrated its 50th anniversary in July 2006. This is a suitable opportunity for rich creditor governments to acknowledge the deeply rooted ethical shortcomings ...

AUG 18, 2006 • Article

If people, instead of raw growth, were the focus of our economic thinking, then nonmarket activities would assume their proper value in our understanding of ...

JUL 28, 2006 • Article

The 1979 Islamic revolution and subsequent takeover of the U.S embassy in Tehran isolated Iran from many countries politically and economically, but government censorship of ...