Word: environmentalism
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This unwillingness to engage with the rest of the world - to risk the sense of security that it enjoys within its own borders - led Kishore Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, to reply to Rachman's column by saying...
Nor have today's European leaders been entirely supine in the face of Mabubhani's "rapidly changing geopolitical environment." The British leaders Gordon Brown and Tony Blair have a long record of arguing for assistance for the poorest parts of the globe. The initiative this year of French President Nicolas...
That's bad news for retailers, which traditionally get up to 40% of their annual revenue from holiday shopping. Still, there are some bright spots. The Internet should outdo the sidewalk: online retail sales this holiday season are expected to grow 12% over last year, to $44 billion, predicts Forrester...
The move reassured doubtful green activists. Concern for the environment is traditionally the first thing thrown overboard when economic seas get rough. That's what appeared to have happened in June, when the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act, the first national bill mandating greenhouse-gas emissions caps to receive a...
Conventional economic wisdom holds that the free market alone should determine which companies and industries succeed and fail. A company’s decisions, whether they are wise or poor, are its own to make, and it should have to face consequences of those decisions. The American auto industry giants?...