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The Democratic Party Platform: the Asia Dimension
Last week, I looked at the Republican Party platform document, significant not for its substantive effect if Mr. Trump prevails but for the splits it ...
Aug 01, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
The Republican Bankruptcy Illusion
There is now near-unanimity that the United States' Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, enacted in 2010, did not end the problems associated with...
Jul 31, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Misunderstanding North Korea’s Celebrity Culture
For nearly a year I have been carrying around with me an essay by David Zeglen titled “It’s the Thought That Counts: North Korea’s Glocalization of th...
Jul 29, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
China’s SOE Reform—The Wrong Path
A key component of China’s SOE reform strategy—mergers of the largest firms in the same industry—seems very unlikely to improve the efficiency of bloa...
Jul 28, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
The Divergent Postcommunist Paths to Democracy and Economic Freedom
This paper presents evidence from 29 postcommunist countries that the economic transition has been more successful than the political transformation i...
Jul 28, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Slave to the Blog: The Will Rogers Edition
The American humorist famously observed, “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.” Some folks internalize this advice, and, well…some do not. Qa...
Jul 27, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
US Exit From WTO Would Unravel Global Trade
In his latest attack on US trade policy, Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has threatened to exit the 163-country World Trade Organiza...
Jul 26, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
The US Filed a WTO Dispute to Save Jobs—by Increasing Imports from China: Here’s Why
In the latest salvo against free trade, Donald Trump argued that the World Trade Organization is a disaster and fails to protect US interests—and said...
Jul 26, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Summer Reading: Diamond, Plattner and Walker, Authoritarianism Goes Global
Last year, I wrote about the problem of “democracy promotion in reverse” and spotlighted a website managed by the International Forum for Democratic S...
Jul 26, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Economic and Political Freedoms Diverge in Eastern Europe
Political analysts often assume that economic and political freedoms go together. Increase property rights and the opportunities for private business,...
Jul 25, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
The North Korean Economy Contracted Last Year. Maybe.
The Bank of Korea has released its annual North Korean GDP estimates, and the BOK has concluded that the North Korean economy contracted by 1.1 percen...
Jul 25, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail
Trans-Pacific Partnership: An Assessment
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) between 12 Pacific Rim countries has generated the most intensive political debate about the role of trade in the ...
Jul 21, 2016 · StaffOriginally on Wedgetail