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...Ec10” problem known as the tragedy of the commons: Certain people’s self-interest is destroying collective and open resources. But it’s not that simple. What action is self-interested and what’s not is hard to identify when prosperity??albeit unequal prosperity??has historically relied on the use of what was once thought to be an endless resource: the atmosphere...
...bailout plan also presents an opportunity to improve several conditions within the European Union. The European Union allowed many Eastern European countries to amass unsustainable levels of debt in order to create a sense of prosperity??an act that has compounded the negative impacts of the current crisis. A bailout plan would generate more stringent economic regulations and could be used to promote unification of the national fiscal policies within Europe...
...discontent. Though both are members of the same party as the committee’s majority, their testimony underscored a divide on trade policy among Congressional Democrats. Acknowledging that globalization has had negative effects on segments of the American workforce, Summers and Rubin backed free trade to increase economic prosperity??as did the other two panelists testifying, professors at Ohio and Princeton Universities. “There is an understandable temptation to erect trade barriers,” Rubin told the committee. “However, I believe that that would be deeply harmful.” Summers...
...week after strained relations with the faculty led to his resignation, University President Lawrence H. Summers was on his academic home turf last night, moderating fellow star economists N. Gregory Mankiw and Gene Sperling in a debate on the “Challenges to American Prosperity?? at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum. The campus buzzed with excitement before the event, with a Harvard Democrats e-mail advertisement billing the event as an “opportunity to see the world’s greatest economists go at it.” Both...
...moved us all.” He later called on progressives to reinvigorate local governance. “The onus is on those of us who believe in government—who believe government has an affirmative role to play in investing in our future and sustaining our prosperity??to demonstrate that government can work better than it does today,” he said. Several times during his remarks, Villaraigosa reminded the audience that Los Angeles has the largest homeless population and the highest poverty rate in the country, declaring that “we need...