by John Langmore | Jun 26, 2003 | Papers
… the United Nations shall promote: (a) higher standards of living, full employment, and conditions of economic and social progress and development;- Charter of the United Nations, Article 55The principal political institution at the heart of global governance, the...
by Martha Nussbaum | Jun 26, 2003 | Papers
Rules for the world stageThere once was a noble vision of what the world of international relations can be. In recent weeks this vision, once nearly realised, has receded from view, so much so that we might forget that human beings ever had such a dream. The idea I...
by Roy Green | May 7, 2003 | Papers
Review articleWhile many books written on the US economy and labour market of the 1990s have been superseded by events, Working in America: A Blueprint for the New Labor Market is unlikely to be one of them. The authors – Paul Osterman, Thomas A Kochan, Richard...
by Patricia Ranald | May 7, 2003 | Papers
The US Free Trade Agreement and the GATSUS FTA: trading Australia away?Negotiations for an Australia-US Free Trade Agreement started on March 17 in Canberra, two days before the invasion of Iraq. This is despite the fact that the government’s own FTA background...
by Robert Brenner | May 7, 2003 | News, Papers
At 6 am on 12 June 2002, four FBI agents barged into the SoHo loft of Samuel Waksal, the former CEO of the biotech company ImClone Systems Inc, and led him away in handcuffs: he was charged with insider trading. His father and daughter had dumped nearly 175,000...
by Noam Chomsky | May 7, 2003 | Papers
This interview was originally published by ZNet and is reproduced with kind permission.1) Why did the U.S. invade Iraq, in your view?These are naturally speculations, and policy makers may have varying motives. But we can have a high degree of confidence about the...
