Economy

Sen’s Sensibility Sen’s Sensibility

Some years ago, I had the good fortune to befriend an extended family who lived in a poor shantytown in the southern reaches of Santiago, Chile.

Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / James North

Global Is as Global Does? Global Is as Global Does?

If one wants to understand what all the fuss is about as the World Trade Organization holds its ministerial conference, Ethan Kapstein's Sharing the Wealth: Workers and the World...

Nov 18, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Mark Levinson

Whose Trade? Whose Trade?

PARTICIPANTS IN THE FORUM Walden Bello, author of Dark Victory: The United States and Global Poverty (Food First), is executive director of the Bangkok-b

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / Various Contributors

States’ Rights and the WTO States’ Rights and the WTO

The World Trade Organization imposes obligations on state and local governments that limit their ability to protect consumers, establish environmental standards and undertake eco...

Nov 18, 1999 / Feature / Dennis Kucinich

Microsoft’s Fatal Error Microsoft’s Fatal Error

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's factual findings in United States v. Microsoft, released November 5, spell the doom of Microsoft as we have known it.

Nov 11, 1999 / Eben Moglen

Debt: Just Forget It Debt: Just Forget It

For two decades the International Monetary Fund and its major client, the US Treasury, have made privatization, austere social budgets and market deregulation conditions of loans...

Nov 4, 1999 / Jeff Faux

George W. Bush: Calling for Philip Morris George W. Bush: Calling for Philip Morris

The Nation Institute's Investigative Fund provided research support.

Oct 21, 1999 / Feature / Bob Dreyfuss

Thurow’s Infonomics Thurow’s Infonomics

We are entering, techno-boosters breathlessly proclaim, a "third industrial revolution," that of the "knowledge-based" or "new" economy.

Oct 14, 1999 / Books & the Arts / Robert J. Crawford

Labor’s Labors Labor’s Labors

Marking the fourth year of president John Sweeney's tenure, the 13-million-member AFL-CIO had much to celebrate at its biennial convention in Los Angeles in mid-October.

Oct 14, 1999 / The Editors

Is the Boston Tea Party Over? Is the Boston Tea Party Over?

Anyone who has led a discussion on the economy or trade or globalization in this country has faced the question, Should I buy American? Sounds simple enough.

Oct 7, 1999 / Books & the Arts / John Cavanagh

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