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Paul Krugman weighs the impact of the financial crisis on shopping mall culture.
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Producer Brett Dobbs asked Tyler Cowen to submit questions for Krugman, here are two responses.
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Krugman talks about how to get faith back in the system.
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Paul Krugman on the financial instruments of the future.
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Paul Krugman on learning from the Asian financial crisis.
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Ken Wilcox knows the importance of keeping employees creatively engaged.
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Ken Wilcox believes small enterprises like his can satisfy clients much better than large ones.
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As a capital provider, Ken Wilcox has enjoyed the tech boom’s entrepreneurial needs.
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James Traub sees a few reasons, based on economic growth, for optimism in Africa.
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Love it or hate it, globalization has become a fact of life. The key question is whether trade can be used to help impoverished countries.
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Citing Ban Ki-Moon, James Traub says we need to choose a secretary general for his “confidence not for his harmlessness.”
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We need to return to our collective enterprises like the UN and the IMF, advises James Traub.
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New York Times magazine contributor James Traub on building states, Obama-style.
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James Traub says Latin America seemed an unlikely candidate for democracy in he 1970s, so there’s no reason the Middle East can’t go the same way.
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If you are an autocrat in the developing world, James Traub notes China offers an unbeatable deal.
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James Traub offers Egypt as an example of how the US can quietly affect civil society.
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James Traub says Russia’s diplomatic concerns preclude any democracy promotion.
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Reagan institutionalized democracy promotion and his policies led to the deposition of several dictators, but it took him a while to get there, says James Traub.