Jonathan Haidt urges us to recognise that reasons persuade others on moral and political issues only under very special circumstances. (h/t Hugo)
Political Economy
Debating the state of the Chinese economy… Is China the Japan of the (just-before-the-bubble-popped) late 1980s, or is a comparison with Japan of the early 70s more appropriate? What is wrong with the consensus view on Chinese growth?
Market Fundamentalism meets reality, or why we should recognise the importance of human behaviour in economic activity…
Too Big To Fail Banking: Privatised Gain, Socialised loss lives on, five years after the crisis… (according to New York Fed Chair William Dudley)
Middle East
John Mearsheimer situates the ongoing violence in Gaza in its wider context…
Ghaddafi, Global Weirdo: an engaging, well researched and insightful portrait of the relationship between ‘The Colonel’ and the elites in both the British and American establishments. Rather unflattering to both parties.
Fida Adely takes a closer look at the reverberations of the Arab Spring on the ground in Jordan – why has there been such a lack of attention, or worse yet, dismissal of political developments?
