Johan Swinnen responds to Oxfam: Let me start by thanking Dani Rodrik for putting a reference and summary of my report on his weblog. I also want to thank Mr. Bailey from Oxfam for his response and reference to two Oxfam reports. In fact, unlike Mr. Bailey’s claim that they contradict my argumen...

The Center for Development Economics at Williams College recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, and I was invited to give a speech. The topic was “Diagnostics Before Prescription,” and I summarized my views on where development economics is today. Here is the speech, including Jim Levinsohn’...

I was asked by Sophie Roell recently what my favorite books on globalization are. I listed books by Karl Polanyi, Ron Findlay and Kevin O’Rourke, Jeffry Frieden, Barry Eichengreen, and Peter Singer. Here is the discussion that this led to.

OK, I have had it with spam in my comments, and from now on you will have to sign in if you want to leave a comment. Thanks to Fergus for the suggestion and for finally getting me to do it.

It pained me to write this as I have never been a Euroskeptic, but I fear the answer for Greece, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal may well be yes. These countries need both debt restructuring and a boost in competitiveness, and it is very difficult to see how they will get those while remaining in ...