Government & Politics

In accepting mass unemployment, post-communist governments and the democratic parties that constituted them removed the economic foundation for Poland’s democracy.

Mike Spence talks with Rob Johnson about his upcoming co-authored book “Permacrisis”, India and the G20, and bringing the world together to address our shared challenges.

On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank with a storied history, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.

By permitting business definitions of “efficiency” to leak over into the antitrust lexicon, antitrust scholars have done a great disservice

The bundle of sanctions was initially designed and imposed in haste, with little basis to assess historic performance.

In The Measure of Our Age, elder justice expert M.T. Connolly, who served as coordinator of the Department of Justice’s Elder Justice Initiative, offers both a warning and challenge: the systems we rely on to protect us as we age haven’t caught up to our longevity. Good news: we have the tools to build better ones.

Preface to the Japanese Edition of Golden Rule

What is the real reason Democratic party leaders go along with the debt ceiling ritual?

In his new book, “Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan To Pillage America,” Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, outlines the dangers of a trillion-dollar industry that hardly anyone understands. He explains how Americans can fight their harmful practices.

Sanctions on Russia are isomorphic to a strict policy of trade protection, industrial policy, and capital controls.

Despite the shock and the costs, the sanctions imposed on the Russian economy were in the nature of a gift.

INET Research on Financial Sector Weakness and Too Big to Fail

Possible repercussions of economic crisis on the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility

The principal threat to economic stability currently is the overhang of debt, both private and public.

The advent of military Keynesianism is a warning against complacency about the moral superiority of the West in defending Ukrainian democracy.