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Individualism and Civility: 2012 Reflections on de Tocqueville’s 1831 America

Do Americans still do justice to the ideals of individualism that Alexis de Tocqueville believed were embodied by U.S. society?

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Facebook — Not a Disaster, Just a Tale of Old-Fashioned Greed

What were the motivations for Facebook’s owners and investment bank advisors taking the company public?

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A Brief History of Global Anchor Currencies

How can dominant economic powers of their time use their currencies to gain cheap financing from abroad?

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Moving Toward a Smarter World

Will the explosion of data be to the 21st-century economy what electricity was to the 19th?

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Putin and Russia’s Big Business: From Unstable Stability to Stable Instability?

Will Putin’s third presidential term be one of growing political and economic risk?

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