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http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=/11671_47A1AACFBBEDD22A3B20FF9D1... September 29, 2014 World Trade ReviewGlobal EconomyGlobal Economy ...

http://chicagopolicyreview.org/2014/01/08/balancing-the-future-of-free-trade-agr... January 8, 2014 Chicago Policy ReviewGlobal EconomyGlobal Economy ...

Chicago and cities worldwide are confronting aging infrastructure, strained fiscal budgets, and the need to remain globally competitive. Policymakers are looking to the privatization of infrastructure as a new source of revenue to address these issues. Acc ...

Our economic system and our planetary system are now at war, according to Naomi Klein. What the climate needs to avoid collapse, she argues, is a contraction in humanity’s use of resources—but what our economic model demands to avoid collapse, is unfetter ...

Life in the world of startups can be solitary, poor, brutish, and short—to borrow from Thomas Hobbes. As an entrepreneur, you should anticipate that you will fail—often, according to Brad Keywell—and there are few who can teach you how to pick up the shat ...

Progress on trade liberalization is likely a 2014 New Year’s resolution for many top policy makers. The question is whether a set of major pending trade negotiations will come to rapid fruition or will suffer the fate of most pledges to eat better and exer ...

In advance of the G20 Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, The Chicago Council on Global released a report, “Searching for Strategies to Restore Global Economic Stability and Growth.”  The report aims to enhance the current understanding of the world economy and t ...

Event Summary by Richard C. Longworth David Stockman, the onetime whiz-kid who was President Reagan’s first budget director, alternatively amused, appalled, and alarmed a Chicago Council audience Tuesday evening with a “tirade” – his word – about a “crazy ...

As the price of gold skyrocketed in the wake of the financial crisis, it drove an unprecedented global mining boom. With new financial products enabling anyone with a brokerage account to invest in gold, ownership was democratized and demand exploded. Fort ...

From Port-au-Prince to Lima to Boston, much of the world is experiencing rising levels of inequality. Among some of the poorest communities in the world, Dr. Paul Farmer, as a physician and anthropologist, and Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, as a theologian and pr ...