List of Theory articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Banking on Coal
Why is the World Bank subsidizing one of the planet's dirtiest fuels?
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JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff know financial crises. In the preamble to their book, recommended by FP Big Thinkers Willem Buiter and Mohamed El-Erian, the two trace back the history of how, with each shock and economic trouble, the world believes that this time is different. It's not.
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Copyright Edward B. Koren, printed by permission of Princeton University Press Animal Spirits
In a chapter of their new book, recommended by FP Big Thinker Paul Collier, George A. Akerlof and Robert Shiller explain why stories -- the human narratives we use to make sense of a complicated world -- are vital to understanding economics.
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HEADS OF STATE FOR FP Putting Your Big Think on the Map
A how-to guide.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Military Deglobalization?
Long-distance military interdependence is taking new forms.