Gareth Jenkins remains the most astute and knowledgeable analyst of Turkey's political-military trials. He has been attacked relentlessly by Gulenists and others close to the government because of his critical views on these trials. But because he sticks to the facts -- he knows Turkish well and...

Here is my Jackson Hole conference paper by that name, here is my FT oped based on it, and here is the WSJ Real Time Blog summary of it.

I have a new paper out by this title, which you can download here. It shows that unconditional convergence is alive and well, but that we need to look for it within manufacturing industries rather than the economy as a whole. Industries that start at lower levels of labor productivity grow faste...

The International Food Policy Research Institute has posted videos of the presentations from a conference in Ghana a few months back. My presentation on the paper Globalization, Structural Change, and Productivity Growth is here. My discussion of the policy implications in the second-best poli...

The image most people will retain of Friedman is the smiling, diminutive, unassuming professor holding up a pencil in front of the cameras in “Free to Choose” to illustrate the power of markets. It took thousands of people all over the world to make this pencil, Friedman said – to mine the graph...

The European Union, and the Eurozone in particular, has impressive institutional achievements to its name. We have a European Parliament, European Commission, European Court of Justice, a set of common regulations that exceeded 100,000 last time I checked (acquis communautaire), and of course t...

As if the economic ramifications of a full-blown Greek default were not terrifying enough, the political consequences could be far worse. A chaotic eurozone breakup would cause irreparable damage to the European integration project, the central pillar of Europe’s political stability since World ...

Pity the mafia that is staging what is probably the most significant political trial in modern Turkey’s history – a show trial in which more than three hundred Turkish military officers stand accused of plotting a military coup back in 2003. Since early 2010, the mafia has produced three differ...

This is an article in Dutch about the Globalization Paradox and my views on the eurozone crisis. The picture is horrible, but I am told the writeup is pretty good.