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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.
Patrick Radden Keefe
Project Leader
Expertise: National Security & Civil Liberties; Espionage; Privacy; Immigration; Cross-border Crime; Human Smuggling
Project Leader Patrick Radden Keefe is a writer who focuses on intelligence, international security, immigration, and the globalization of crime. He is the author of CHATTER: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping (Random House, 2005), and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and Slate.
He is also a Fellow at The Century Foundation, and his articles and Op-Eds have appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, The New York Times Magazine and Op-Ed page, The New York Review of Books, Legal Affairs, the Boston Globe, WIRED, and other publications.
The recipient of a Marshall Scholarship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Patrick is currently working on a book about human smuggling between China and the United States, to be published by Doubleday in 2009.
Education
M.A. International Relations, Cambridge University
M.A. New Media and Information Systems, London School of Economics
J.D. Yale Law School
Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of EavesdroppingSELECTED ARTICLES
The Wall Street Journal chose Mr. Keefe's book The Snakehead as one of five non-fiction titles in its "Best of the Season" Summer Books preview, 2009.
Patrick Radden Keefe was interviewed about his book The Snakehead, Publishers Weekly, May 25, 2009.
“State Secrets,” The New Yorker, April 28, 2008.
"China's Great Migration," Slate.com, April 9-11, 2008.
"The Jefferson Bottles," The New Yorker, September 3, 2007.
"The Idol Thief," The New Yorker, May 7, 2007. "The Snakehead," The New Yorker, April 24, 2006.
Spoke about "The Espionage Industrial Complex: Costs of Privatizing Intelligence Post-9/11" Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2007, at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs.
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