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Russia Economy Watch: Is Russia Just Another Emerging Economy, Or Is There Something Special About The Present Bout Of Financial Turmoil?

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IMF and Civil Society -- The Other Crisis: Food, Fuel Prices Pose Continued Risk

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Chinese capitalism | The long march backwards | The Economist

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Fukuyama: The End of America Inc | Newsweek Business | Newsweek.com

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on 2008-10-06 and saved by 4 people
- the damage that the financial meltdown is doing to America's "brand."
- The first was a certain vision of capitalism—one that argued low taxes, light regulation and a pared-back government would be the engine for economic growth.
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- - The second big idea was America as a promoter of liberal democracy around the world, which was seen as the best path to a more prosperous and open international order.
  - what political scientist Joseph Nye has labeled our "soft power."
  - Worse, the culprit is the American model itself: under the mantra of less government, Washington failed to adequately regulate the financial sector and allowed it to do tremendous harm to the rest of the society.
  - To many people around the world, America's rhetoric about democracy sounds a lot like an excuse for furthering U.S. hegemony.
  - And we cannot even begin until we clearly understand what went wrong—which aspects of the American model are sound, which were poorly implemented, and which need to be discarded altogether.
Demeaning Democracy - Harvard - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

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Kevin Bondelli's List: International

Russia Economy Watch: Is Russia Just Another Emerging Economy, Or Is There Something Special About The Present Bout Of Financial Turmoil?

IMF and Civil Society -- The Other Crisis: Food, Fuel Prices Pose Continued Risk

Chinese capitalism | The long march backwards | The Economist

Fukuyama: The End of America Inc | Newsweek Business | Newsweek.com

Demeaning Democracy - Harvard - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

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