Recent Articles
APR 7, 1992 • Article
Whose Environmental Standards? Clarifying the Issues of Our Common Future
At this first meeting of the U.S.-Japan Task Force on the Environment, 34 international environment specialists, political scientists, U.S.-Japan policy analysts, and ...
APR 6, 1992 • Article
Privatization Project (1991–1994): From "Confusion Economics" to a Market Economy: The Only Way for Sweden
Sweden must implement radical economic changes. Obstacles to foreign investment, government regulations, state-owned companies, monopolies and discriminatory policies against small businesses must be removed.
MAR 20, 1992 • Article
Privatization Project (1991–1994): Privatization: Misconceptions, Glib Answers, and Lessons
Privatization is changing the face of the world and, "just as we must rethink what we used to assume about the extent and importance of ...
FEB 28, 1992 • Article
Privatization Project (1991–1994): Privatization: Opportunities for New York
"What is amazing is that this country, which was the teacher of the world on what private individuals can do, has become the student."
JAN 31, 1992 • Article
Privatization Project (1991–1994): Privatization in the United States
"Opposition to privatization is entrenched on Capitol Hill, and those that are threatened by privatization lobby very hard to retain their priviliged position."
OCT 1, 1991 • Article
Privatization Project (1991–1994): Privatization in the Republic of Russia
"Since the course of the Russian government is the integration of our economy into that of the worlds', our rules must be compatible with the ...
SEP 20, 1991 • Article
Privatization Project (1991–1994): An Assessment of Privatization in the U.K.: Mistakes, Successes, and Future Prospects
"No one should underestimate the extent to which political will, commitment, and singlemindedness was needed to implement the British privatization program."
JUN 28, 1991 • Article
Privatization Project (1991–1994): Privatization in a Capital-Short World
"Mrs. Thatcher made absolutely certain that when privatization took place, no one could gain more than a small number of shares. Privatization was not for ...
MAY 15, 1991 • Article
Privatization Project (1991–1994): The Political Economy of Privatization in Czechoslovakia
"No economic reform is intended in Czechoslovakia - but a total transformation of the economy."
MAY 12, 1991 • Article
Morgenthau Lectures (1981–2006): Speaking Truth to Power: The Quest for Equality in Freedom
Former Council president Robert J. Myers discusses the legacy of Hans J. Morgenthau: his realist doctrine and its influence on American foreign policy; some enduring ...