Issue 2011 October 15
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ECONOMIC AFFAIRS: Still coming to grips with the global financial crisis
World leaders have not yet come to grips with the causes, let alone the solutions, to the global financial crisis (GFC), which now threatens to evolve into a global depression. Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor at Columbia University, has identified three fundamental problems that caused the financial crisis of 2008 (Project Syndicate, September 3, 2011). First, rising productivity (output per…
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BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age Gregory Wolfe Culture wars and increasingly partisan conflicts have reduced public discourse to shouting matches between ideologues. But rather than bemoaning this tendency, says acclaimed author and editor Gregory Wolfe, we should seek to enrich the language of civil discourse by rediscovering the importance of beauty and imagination to cultural…
