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Lester C. Thurow

Review Essay
Jul/Aug
1999
A Glass Half Full? Thurow Dissects the Third Industrial Revolution
Jeffrey E. Garten

Lester C. Thurow's gloomy new book trumpets the knowledge revolution's virtues but warns that neither Europe, nor Japan, nor even America is ready for them.
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
1996
The Future of Capitalism: How Today's Economic Forces Will Shape Tomorrow's World
Richard N. Cooper
Response
Jul/Aug
1994
Microchips, Not Potato Chips
Lester C. Thurow

Thurow responds to Paul Krugman's "Competitiveness: A Dangerous Obsession."
Capsule Review
Spring
1986
The Zero-Sum Solution
William Diebold, Jr.
Capsule Review
Fall
1983
Dangerous Currents: The State of Economics
William Diebold, Jr.
Capsule Review
Summer
1980
The Zero-Sum Society
William Diebold, Jr.
Capsule Review
Apr
1976
Generating Inequality: Mechanisms of Distribution in the U.S. Economy
William Diebold, Jr.
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November/December 2009 / 6, 88
Essay
In the Quicksands of Somalia
Bronwyn Bruton

Washington's repeated attempts to bring peace to Somalia with state-building initiatives have failed, even backfired. It should renounce political intervention and encourage local development without trying to improve governance.
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