Thursday, April 18, 2013

Current Events Reading: 4/19

Read the following articles in the Economist for Friday:

Re-read (or read, if you haven't yet) the piece by Gilpin for this previous Wednesday. Identify elements in each story that reflect Gilpin's ideas of statism/mercantilism, liberalism and radicalism/Marxism.

For extra credit, share (in the comments) what the statist, liberal and radical solutions would be to the problems described in some of these stories.