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Foxconn in Wisconsin: arguments for an American industrial policy
The pole dance is concluded. Jeff Bezos has chosen New York City and the Virginia suburbs of Washington DC for Amazon’s new headquarters. State and local governments will fork over more than $2 billion for the favor. Earnest policy folk are a bit shocked. The libertarian magazine "Reason" thinks Amazon would have picked . . .
Truthtelling from the sh—hole, or ‘Make Africa Great Again.’
Some of the racket about President Trump’s alleged politically incorrect reference to ‘shithole countries’ was that it would likely offend African elites. Which it did; the African Union issued an angry protest, for example. But it’s less plausible that 
the alleged comment would offend ordinary Africans, who endure all . . .
Posted in: africadevelopmentimmigrationtrump
“Do you Rejoice for China?” Up to a point, Dr. Taylor, up to a point.
Timothy Taylor tells us that he rejoices at the great improvement in Chinese living standards since 1980, and wants to know if we feel the same way.
“…one might ask: Do you rejoice that China’s economic growth has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of the most dire and terrible poverty? Or do you wish the process . . .
Posted in: chinacommunismdevelopment
de te fabula narratur: India in your future
“Quid rides? Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur”, says Horace in his ‘Satires’ (1.1.69): “Why do you laugh? Change but the name, and it is of you the story is told.” Karl Marx quotes the Roman poet in his Preface to the First German Edition of ‘Capital’ (1867), to warn Germans they . . .
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