free market economy Beating the competitionCarolyn Moynihan | 03 February 2012 |tags: education crisis, family structure, US economyBusiness leaders are blaming the education system for the loss of jobs offshore. But aren’t they forgetting that other institution that turns out good workers?  Germany faces tough decisions in Europe’s debt crisisGeorge Friedman | 01 February 2012 |tags: debt crisis, European Union, Germany, StratforThe Germans hold many cards, and that's their problem.  Vatican’s controversial plan for financial reformDavid J. Peterson | 19 January 2012 |tags: global financial crisis, Vatican“Economic liberalism”, based on utilitarianism and materialism, is the root cause of the global financial crisis, Catholic scholars argue.  “Tax me please, I’m rich!”Vincenzina Santoro | 18 January 2012 |tags: debt crisis, taxation, USAIf they are so keen, why don’t they just give it to the government anyway?  Imagine old age without the stateOskari Juurikkala | 22 November 2011 |tags: ageing population, family, social securityGovernments did not invent social security. They copied it from the oldest social institution in the world.  What is #OccupyWallStreet hoping for?Max Torres | 14 November 2011 |tags: economics, hope, Occupy Wall StreetThe protest movement is a sad parody of the notion of progress through materialism.  What the Wall Street protesters missedVincenzina Santoro | 14 November 2011 |tags: New York, Occupy Wall StreetThose fat cat capitalists have moved on, leaving the skyscrapers to non-profits.
 Back to basics: a Vince Lombardi moment for the economy| 26 October 2011 |tags: economics, family, philosophyAn essay on the four principles of all successful American economic policy - and the philosophical A-team behind them.  Ten policies for renewing family lifePhillip Longman | 17 October 2011 |tags: demographic dividend, economics, familyThe state of the family in many advanced societies is unsustainable. Which public policies could reverse this decline?  A dividend Wall Street cannot deliverW Bradford Wilcox and Carlos Cavallé | 12 October 2011 |tags: demographic dividend, human capital, marriageThe wealth of nations depends in no small part on the health of the family.  Unreal estateRoger Scruton | 27 September 2011 |tags: ethics of economics, global financial crisisThe endless economic crisis suggests that it is time for a return to a moral understanding the economy, says a British philosopher.  I can’t hack any more of thisMichael Cook | 12 July 2011 |tags: media, News of the World, UKThe public is being manipulated in the outrage over skulduggery at Britain's most notorious tabloid, the News of the World.  As the family goes, so goes the economyCarolyn Moynihan | 27 May 2011 |tags: economics, marriage, povertyThere is an intimate relationship between our income wealth and our sexual culture.  How not to solve povertyRebekah Hebbert | 28 April 2011 |tags: minimum wage, poverty, youth unemploymentRaising the minimum wage may look generous, but whom does it benefit really?  An own goal for unwary governmentsStefan Szymanski | 28 April 2011 |tags: economics, soccer, sportA leading sports economist is sceptical about the value of hosting major events as a way of boosting local economies.  Who wants to be a billionaire?Carolyn Moynihan | 11 March 2011 |tags: philanthropy, wealthOnly those who haven't thought about what it might do their family and friendships.  For-profit microcredit is not the enemyBlake Robinson | 06 January 2011 |tags: economics, finance, microcredit, subprime crisisMoves to rein in the practice of extending microcredit to the poor for profit may be misguided.
 Russia: rule of law on trialMikhail Khodorkovsky | 17 December 2010 |tags: governance, Russia, Yukos caseA verdict due on the Yukos oil case will decide whether Russia will become a country of freedom and law or become stuck in Soviet-like repression, says one of the accused.
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