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When economic development shifts into reverse gear
Developing countries' economies are a mish-mash, combining the productive with the unproductive, the First World with the Third. But why are some developing countries able to shift workers from low-productivity activities to higher-productivity sectors, whereas others have seen labor flowing in ...
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IMF conference on Macroeconomics after the Crisis
I spoke today at a panel on economic growth after the crisis at a conference organized by the IMF. My co-panelists were George Akerlof, Mike Spence, Andrew Sheng, and Paul Romer. In the audience: Bob Solow, Joe Stiglitz, Olivier Blanchard, and many others. In retrospect, it was probably a mistak...
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The Turkish prosecutors’ pyramid scheme
Another bizarre set of police roundups today in Turkey: eleven people, mostly journalists, were subject to early morning house searches and reportedly issued arrest warrants. Among those caught in the net is Nedim Şener, an award-winning reporter, who has done more than anyone else to shed ligh...
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Another U-curve in economic development
During the course of research my co-author Maggie McMillan and I were doing on broad patterns of structural change, our research assistant Inigo Verduzco stumbled on an interesting stylized fact that is captured in the figure below. What it shows is that the relative productivity of agricultur...
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Das Globalisierungs-Paradox
For those of you who would rather read my new book in German, it will be out on February 23rd. For more information on it, click here. Translations into Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Greek, Chinese, and British English are also forthcoming.
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How I spent my winter break
In December I traveled to Turkey with my wife and young son, as we do every year during winter break. This time, though, we had more than visiting family and friends in mind. We were on a mission to demonstrate that what many have called the trial of the century in Turkey is in fact a sham built...
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The message from Tunisia and Egypt
If Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali or Egypt's Hosni Mubarak were hoping for political popularity as a reward for economic gains, they must have been sorely disappointed. Their people have just sent a sobering message to China and other authoritarian regimes around the world: don’t count on eco...
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Some recent book reviews
Matt Yglesias thinks The Globalization Paradox is “a pretty good book lurking behind a terrible framing device.” Hmmm. I guess that’s better than the other way around. Good to see that some of his readers find the device pretty useful in thinking about what Greece, for instance, is going thro...
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When economic development shifts into reverse gear
Developing countries' economies are a mish-mash, combining the productive with the unproductive, the First World with the Third. But why are some developing countries able to shift workers from low-productivity activities to higher-productivity sectors, whereas others have seen labor flowing in ...
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IMF conference on Macroeconomics after the Crisis
I spoke today at a panel on economic growth after the crisis at a conference organized by the IMF. My co-panelists were George Akerlof, Mike Spence, Andrew Sheng, and Paul Romer. In the audience: Bob Solow, Joe Stiglitz, Olivier Blanchard, and many others. In retrospect, it was probably a mistak...
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The Turkish prosecutors’ pyramid scheme
Another bizarre set of police roundups today in Turkey: eleven people, mostly journalists, were subject to early morning house searches and reportedly issued arrest warrants. Among those caught in the net is Nedim Şener, an award-winning reporter, who has done more than anyone else to shed ligh...
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Another U-curve in economic development
During the course of research my co-author Maggie McMillan and I were doing on broad patterns of structural change, our research assistant Inigo Verduzco stumbled on an interesting stylized fact that is captured in the figure below. What it shows is that the relative productivity of agricultur...
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Das Globalisierungs-Paradox
For those of you who would rather read my new book in German, it will be out on February 23rd. For more information on it, click here. Translations into Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Greek, Chinese, and British English are also forthcoming.
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How I spent my winter break
In December I traveled to Turkey with my wife and young son, as we do every year during winter break. This time, though, we had more than visiting family and friends in mind. We were on a mission to demonstrate that what many have called the trial of the century in Turkey is in fact a sham built...
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The message from Tunisia and Egypt
If Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali or Egypt's Hosni Mubarak were hoping for political popularity as a reward for economic gains, they must have been sorely disappointed. Their people have just sent a sobering message to China and other authoritarian regimes around the world: don’t count on eco...
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IMF conference on Macroeconomics after the Crisis
I spoke today at a panel on economic growth after the crisis at a conference organized by the IMF. My co-panelists were George Akerlof, Mike Spence, Andrew Sheng, and Paul Romer. In the audience: Bob Solow, Joe Stiglitz, Olivier Blanchard, and many others. In retrospect, it was probably a mistak...
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The Turkish prosecutors’ pyramid scheme
Another bizarre set of police roundups today in Turkey: eleven people, mostly journalists, were subject to early morning house searches and reportedly issued arrest warrants. Among those caught in the net is Nedim Şener, an award-winning reporter, who has done more than anyone else to shed ligh...
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Another U-curve in economic development
During the course of research my co-author Maggie McMillan and I were doing on broad patterns of structural change, our research assistant Inigo Verduzco stumbled on an interesting stylized fact that is captured in the figure below. What it shows is that the relative productivity of agricultur...
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Das Globalisierungs-Paradox
For those of you who would rather read my new book in German, it will be out on February 23rd. For more information on it, click here. Translations into Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Greek, Chinese, and British English are also forthcoming.
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How I spent my winter break
In December I traveled to Turkey with my wife and young son, as we do every year during winter break. This time, though, we had more than visiting family and friends in mind. We were on a mission to demonstrate that what many have called the trial of the century in Turkey is in fact a sham built...
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The message from Tunisia and Egypt
If Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali or Egypt's Hosni Mubarak were hoping for political popularity as a reward for economic gains, they must have been sorely disappointed. Their people have just sent a sobering message to China and other authoritarian regimes around the world: don’t count on eco...
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When economic development shifts into reverse gear
Developing countries' economies are a mish-mash, combining the productive with the unproductive, the First World with the Third. But why are some developing countries able to shift workers from low-productivity activities to higher-productivity sectors, whereas others have seen labor flowing in ...
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Some recent book reviews
Matt Yglesias thinks The Globalization Paradox is “a pretty good book lurking behind a terrible framing device.” Hmmm. I guess that’s better than the other way around. Good to see that some of his readers find the device pretty useful in thinking about what Greece, for instance, is going thro...
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A video of my talk on structural change and growth
Here is the complete video of my talk a couple of days ago at the World Bank. I am presenting my paper with Maggie McMillan on structural change and economic growth. I hope Ann Harrison is still talking to me after what I said about her at the beginning...
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There are people who do not like my book!
Guy Sorman's review of my book The Globalization Paradox has one good turn of phrase at the beginning, where he calls me "a liberal mugged by globalization." But from my perspective it is all downhill from there. I provide the link to the review in the interest of equal time for my critics. The...
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