Originally appeared in the New York Times. THANKS disproportionately to their mother, my kids have a gratifyingly acute sense of the urgency of addressing the dire straits in which far too much of the world’s population lives. For my part, I wanted them to understand the key role that capitalism, which has brought more people […]

Originally appeared in the New York Times Even more than income inequality, slow growth sits firmly atop the leader board of global economic worries. Among the most prosperous countries — the Group of 7 — not a single nation is achieving an acceptable rate of expansion. Once formidable emerging countries are in disarray: Brazil and […]

Originally appeared in the New York Times A FEW days ago, I visited the shiny headquarters of the Peterson Institute for International Economics on “think tank row” in Washington — basically, the locker room of the Team Globalization and Free Trade cheering squad. I was there to take part in a discussion of an old […]