In case you missed this about AI editorial board member Owen Harries… FRI 15 DEC 2006, Page 47 The influencer By: Story by Andrew Clark OWEN HARRIES IS THE MAN WHO LAUNCHED THE CATCHCRY THAT DEFINED AN ERA. BUT AS HISTORY RESUMED, HE HAS FOUND HIMSELF INCREASINGLY REMOTE FROM SOME FORMER FELLOW TRAVELLERS Owen Harries […]

Franco Furger and I have just released the final report of our Human Biotechnologies Governance Project. The report calls for the creation of a new federal regulatory agency to oversee human reproductive medicine in the United States. It argues that the current regulatory structure, spread between the FDA, NIH, and state regulatory bodies, is inadequate […]

Franco Furger and I have just released the final report of our Human Biotechnologies Governance Project. The report calls for the creation of a new federal regulatory agency to oversee human reproductive medicine in the United States. It argues that the current regulatory structure, spread between the FDA, NIH, and state regulatory bodies, is inadequate […]

I was in Mexico City this week to present a paper for a session on state reform jointly sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, at LACEA (the Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association).At a dinner for conference participants I got to sit at the table of president elect Felipe Calderon, along […]

I was in Mexico City this week to present a paper for a session on state reform jointly sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, at LACEA (the Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association). At a dinner for conference participants I got to sit at the table of president elect Felipe Calderon, […]

Understanding how and why political institutions differ between the US and Latin America is, then, key to understanding the larger puzzle of the latter region’s lagging development.

The victory of Darfurian rebel forces over the Sudanese army in a couple of engagements last week has led to the expulsion of UN representative Jan Pronk from Khartoum for writing about it on his blog. These battles should remind us that if the conflict in Darfur is genocide, it is also quite different from […]

The victory of Darfurian rebel forces over the Sudanese army in a couple of engagements last week has led to the expulsion of UN representative Jan Pronk from Khartoum for writing about it on his blog. These battles should remind us that if the conflict in Darfur is genocide, it is also quite different from […]

This past week I spent three days in Kiev, as a guest of the Economics Education and Research Consortium (an economics program that is about to transform itself into the Kiev School of Economics), and Expert Magazine, a Russian-language journal that had a role in publishing a new Russian edition of my book Trust.  Viktor […]

This past week I spent three days in Kiev, as a guest of the Economics Education and Research Consortium (an economics program that is about to transform itself into the Kiev School of Economics), and Expert Magazine, a Russian-language journal that had a role in publishing a new Russian edition of my book Trust. Viktor […]