Danny Leipziger is Professor of International Business at George Washington University, in Washington DC. He replied to a letter in the Financial Times from a Paul Marshall, who opined that the ills of the US economy were caused by political capture by the wealthy. Prof. Leipziger puts the problems down to regulatory capture, poor corporate …
I can’t fault President Obama for trying to compromise with the opposition and for attempting to get something, anything, done. But my criticism. of him is that he has failed to get his own government under control. Everywhere you look you see disfunction, if not crass mismanagement, and actions that no normal Democratic government should …
If you are of Epicurean persuasion you have to have sympathy with the fundamentalist pastors and professors in Christian colleges and churches in America. All their lives they have believed in the literal words of the old testament. They have preached it from the pulpit or have taught it in class (I am not saying …
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By 2012 the richest 70 members of China’s national legislature had a net worth of almost $90bn, more than 20 times the combined net worth of the entire US congress. (from “Age of Ambition”, by Evan Osnos). In regimes all over the world corruption has been forever part of the picture. Decent, well-meaning people, who …
Howard Becker is a major figure in American sociology (and also a star jazz player) He is the subject of an article in the New Yorker (January 12) by Adam Gopnik. What particularly drew my attention was his contention that “any social group, insider or outsider, ends up by divorcing itself from the group it …
