Post Tagged 'Dambisa Moyo'

October 08, 2025

21 Books for the 21st Century

October, National Book Month, is a time for “best book” recommendation lists. I have a hard time being objective about the highly subjective experience of reading, so here’s my personal list not of “the best” but of titles that educated me. Continue Reading...

February 15, 2012

Creeping Crony Corporatism

In this week’s Acton Commentary, “Corrupted Capitalism and the Housing Crisis,” I contend we need to add some categories to our thinking about political economy. In this case, the idea of “corporatism” helps understand a good deal of what we see in the American system today. Continue Reading...

July 21, 2011

Intergenerational Cultural Consequences of the Housing Crisis

I wrote a bit about my short essay describing some of the principles and concepts at play concerning intergenerational ethics and economics. There are also important intergenerational cultural consequences following the Great Recession. Continue Reading...

May 20, 2011

The West and the Rest

Over at the Comment site, I review Dambisa Moyo’s How the West was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly—and the Stark Choices Ahead. In “War of the Worldviews,” I note that the strongest elements of Moyo’s work are related to her analysis of the causes and the trends of global economic power. Continue Reading...