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July 30, 2014
Indonesia
Guest Post: Jokowi’s Small Victory Over Corruption in Indonesia
This blog post was authored by Timothy F. Higgins, a graduate of the University of St. Andrews with an MA in political philosophy. The recent presidential victory of Joko Widodo (popularly known as …
June 13, 2011
Global Governance
Unnatural Selection
People gather in front of City Bank to buy tickets for the cricket World Cup in Dhaka, Bangladesh on January 2, 2011. (Andrew Biraj/Courtesy Reuters) In today’s Financial Times, I have a review of t…
January 28, 2013
China
Why China Hands Think What They Think
These days, China books are a dime a dozen and so, too, are China analysts. Journalists, scholars, businesspeople, general foreign policy analysts, and random people living in Beijing all have someth…
February 4, 2007
Financial Markets
The mechanics of the carry trade, revealed … (sort of)
Andrew Rozanov of State Street knows a thing or two about how official institutions manage their money (that is a big part of his current job) and a thing or two about Japan (he was based in Tokyo fo…
February 12, 2015
Fossil Fuels
A Must Read New Book on Oil, Finance, and Economic History
In 1863, with the first American oil boom “at full tilt”, Andrew Carnegie had an epiphany: the world would soon run out of oil. He and a partner “decided to dig an enormous hole, capable of holding 1…
