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Reducing timber loss through responsible management of the world’s forest stock has the power to reduce poverty, conflict, and greenhouse gases. This policy paper details efforts to date and provides comprehensive proposals for much needed action.
Age of Greed
WPI Senior Fellow Jeff Madrick describes the history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last forty years, and of the men most responsible for them. He recounts the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth that has been on the rise in the United States since the 1970s, led by a few individuals who have argued that self-interest guides society more effectively than community concerns.
Karl Meyer
Editor Emeritus, World Policy Journal
Expertise The imperial and post-imperial age in South Asia and the former Soviet Union; Russia; Western policy toward Central Asia, Iran, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, and Pakistan; Middle East.
Karl Meyer, who has edited World Policy Journal since the year 2000, is an experienced writer and commentator on international affairs, a former editorial writer for both the New York Times and the Washington Post, the author of a dozen books, and a visiting professor at Yale, Princeton, Tufts, and most recently Bard College.
Born in Wisconsin, he earned his BA at the state university and his masters degree in public affairs and PhD at Princeton University, and he has been a visiting fellow at Oxford University and Berlin's Institute for Advanced Study. His recent writings have focused on the imperial and post-imperial age in South Asia and the former Soviet Union. His most recent book, co-authored with his wife, Shareen Blair Brysac, is Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East (Norton 2008). Their previous joint book, Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia. The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland, reissued in paperback in 2004 by Public Affairs, examines the present and past of Russia and the West's involvement with Central Asia, Iran, the Caucasus, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
Honors & Affiliations
Member of the Toynbee Prize Foundation, among other honors.
Education
B.A. Wisconsin State University
PhD, Princeton
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