Capitalism

  • All that is good in my work has come to me from my teachers and is dedicated to the memory of my late brother. All that is flawed belongs to me. Upon publishing my last post on the death of the corporate university, I realized that it was a much more polished sequel to the

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  • Politics in Pakistan has achieved something truly special. While economics and its practitioners have been taking a continuous beating the world over since the the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-08, Pakistani politics and its most prominent public faces have dragged themselves through so much mud that nobody wants anything to do with them. Politics is

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  • Between a capitalist rock and a democratic hard place Capitalism and democracy, for all their beauty, are also brutal systems, subject to the volatility and absurdities of human decision making. Guided by the profit motive and the exclusionary power of capital, capitalism is a powerful but difficult beast to tame and put to work for

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  • Capitalism is on trial — again. Critics of capitalism have at least in part been vindicated. Governments have their work cut out for them at this time of crisis. How governments and policy makers frame their work will be of crucial importance. They will now have to make the case for capitalism even as the

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  • I recently read this article in the Financial Times on central bankers, and wrote this letter to the editor as a response.

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