Policy Paper: Fairly Trading the World's Timber .jpg)
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.
World Policy Institute - Global Economic Architecture Program
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Director: Sam Natapoff The Global Economic Architecture Project evaluates the political ramifications of global macroeconomics with a focus on U.S. foreign policy. It provides policy analysis examining global and domestic consequences of key political and economic events and trends for U.S. foreign policy, U.S. firms, and international institutions. Current projects include the strategic challenges facing U.S. foreign policy in January 2009, China’s evolving internet, the changing power of global financial markets, U.S. and international monetary policy, the constitutional and economic future of the European Union, the broader impact of Information Technology on the U.S. Economy, and Iran and the 2008 U.S. presidential election. For more information, email natapoff@worldpolicy.org. On December 20, 2007, the Global Economic Architecture Program organized "Iran in Campaign 2008: Myth Versus Reality in U.S. Policymaking," the first of a series of WPI briefings on key issues that will face the next U.S. president. GEAP Director Sam Natapoff moderated the discussion among The New York Times' Marcus Mabry, Amba. Peter Galbraith and Dr. Neguin Yavari, about how Iran shapes and is shaped by the current U.S. presidential election cycle. View the video below.
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