The Optimist
List of The Optimist articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Marx Is Back
The global working class is starting to unite -- and that's a good thing.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Linked Out
The case for sending America's unemployed abroad.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Barriers to Entry
How opening borders gives economies a lift.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Give Sam Walton the Nobel Prize
Why Walmart may have done more for the poor than any business in American history.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Case for Big Brother
A little government monitoring can be a good thing.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Convergence of Civilizations
The oft-predicted "clash of civilizations" has not materialized. If anything, values are converging across cultures.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Work More, Make More?
The case against long hours.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Praise of Slums
Why millions of people choose to live in urban squalor.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Wealth of Nations
It's time to stop calling countries like Brazil and China "developing." They're just rich.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Dumb and Dumber
Are development experts becoming racists?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Get an MBA, Save the World
If you want to work in international development, go work for a big, bad multinational company.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Narco State
There's good news on the drug war: The world knows how to end it -- so why can't the United States figure it out?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Not Too Hot to Handle
Why climate doomsayers are selling humanity short.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Sharing the Burden
Why Africa doesn't need your white guilt anymore.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Better Bank
Why President Obama's curious nomination for the new chief of the World Bank could turn out to be a smart pick -- and an interesting indication of how aid lending is changing for good.
