Open House Event For Prospective Students, January 16th, 2014

February 7, 2014 Jin Chung

The war for democracy and peace: a review of Adam Tooze’s “The deluge: The Great War, America and the remaking of the world order”
There are at least three ways to look at the period around the end and just after the World War I, from 1916 to the early 1920s, which provides both chronologically (in terms of the years covered) as well in terms of the relative size of the book, the core of Adam Tooze’s “Deluge”.The first […]
My response to DeLong and Pseudoerasmus
I am sometimes puzzled whether (very sharp) people so deeply immersed in their world and their thoughts, do not want to understand what the topic of discussion is, or pretend not to understand.My post (here) to which both Brad DeLong (here) and Pseudoerasmus (here) strongly (and at times intemperately) reacted does not at all ask […]
The hidden dangers of Fukuyama-like triumphalism
Tomorrow, I am attending a conference that deals with the decline of Western “liberalism capitalism” and how it should be arrested. In the past year, I have been submerged with articles and books that discuss the same topic. They come from all parts of social sciences: economics, politics, sociology, anthropology, geopolitics…It seems that you cannot […]
Lenin in his time: Review of Tariq Ali’s “The dilemmas of Lenin”
I bought this book less than a week ago planning to take it with me on vacation. But I “made a mistake” of reading the first chapter and was so captivated that I finished it in just several days.Tariq Ali has not written a standard biography of Lenin. It is not a book that follows […]
Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
As is well-known (or should be well-known) Marxism has gradually developed two approaches to imperialism. Marx’s own position was (until the very last years of his life) essentially and unbendingly positive: imperialism, however brutal and disruptive, was the engine whereby more advanced social formation, namely capitalism, was introduced in and transformed more backward societies. Marx’s […]
The unknown Tocqueville in America
Several years ago, a friend presented me with a small volume entitled “Quinze jours dans le désert” written by Alexis de Tocqueville in 1831 when he visited (the only time ever) the young United States. This is a short book of some 100 pages, on his travel to the then extreme confines of “civilization”, Flint […]
The “deep state” as a tool for redistribution of income in favor of the rich. Review of Mike Lofgren’s “The deep state”
The term “deep state” started to be used in the United States during the last electoral campaign, and to some extent overshadowed its older “twins”, “the elite” and “the establishment”. There are certain advantages to the use of each of these terms to describe the web of organizations and people that run US domestic and […]
El super clasico: trade and technology duke it out at CUNY
Graduate Center CUNY organized yesterday (April 26) a star-studded discussion of the effects of trade on US jobs and wages. The participants were David Autor and Ann Harrison, both authors of seminal economic papers on the effects of China’s imports on US employment and wages (and professors at respectively MIT and Wharton), Brad DeLong, a […]
A theory of the rise and fall of economic leadership: review of Bas van Bavel’s “The Invisible Hand?”
The recently published “The invisible hand?: How market economies have emerged and declined since AD 500” (Oxford University Press, 2016, 330 pages) by Bas van Bavel has, like all important books, a relatively simple core theory which Van Bavel, a well-known economic historian teaching at the University of Utrecht, illustrates on five historical examples: Iraq […]
The welfare state in the age of globalization
In my previous post that looked at policies to reduce inequality in the 21stcentury, I mentioned that I will next discuss the welfare state. Here it is.It has become a truism to say that the welfare state is under stress from the effects of globalization and migration. It will help to understand the origin of […]

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Open House Event For Prospective Students, January 16th, 2014

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