To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor healt...
The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.
The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.
Whoever rises to deliver the inaugural Address of 2013 will speak to a nation in which the American Dream is under profound economic and cultural pressure. This is perhaps best measured by the state of the middle class.
Since knowledge is equal to money - it is wise not to use it all at once, but to apply the rules of economics and spread it respectively
One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.
Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.
Firstly, people take for granted that the E.U. has created the biggest economic space in the world.
As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.
The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.
If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there's no reason we can't also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy.
My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.
We have seen what the dependence and addiction to foreign oil has done to us economically.
There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities.
India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.
I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.
So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.
