Bog Slides and Debacles

Miracles and Debacles: Do Free-trade Skeptics have a Case?

• There is no sustained growth without low and/or declining barriers to trade. • Sustained rapid growth has almost never missed the poor. While there is a role for targeted poverty-reduction programs, the best hope of the poor remains sustained rapid growth. 1 The author is Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy & Professor of Economics at Columbia University. Work on this paper...

Some bog denizens

Bog. interface-//Culture

reemphasized a classic issue within political and cultural theory – the relationship between individual human agency and social structure: to what extent do local actions reproduce or transform global structures? Several early accounts of the internet expressed high hopes, not least, regarding its participatory potential and transformative capacity. Could clicks cumulatively change the world? –...

Greenhouse gases German bog

Environmental controls of greenhouse gas release in a restoring peat bog in NW Germany S. Glatzel, I. Forbrich, C. Krüger, S. Lemke, and G. Gerold University of Rostock, Institute for the Management of Rural Areas, Landscape Ecology and Land Evaluation, Justus von Liebig Weg 6, 18059 Rostock, Germany Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, Grimmer S...

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