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DEC 19, 2008 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Trade Liberalization and the Financial Crisis

What does the financial crisis imply? Should we liberalize trade on agriculture and services? Or should we protect domestic producers?

The Measure of America: American Human Development Report, 2008-2009

DEC 19, 2008 Podcast

The Measure of America

Following the UNDP model, this report uses a Human Development Index that provides a single measure of well-being for all Americans. The disturbing results reveal ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/steviezj/248886048/">Stephen Jones</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

DEC 18, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: The New Science of Sustainable Dynamics

The concept of sustainability is used as a policy guide today, but beyond this important sense of applied ethics sustainability must also become a science.

Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/mybigtrip/6111406/">Natmandu</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

DEC 18, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Time Out

As vital as it has become to modern life, keeping track of Coordinated Universal Time is no mean feat.

Next Stop: Cleaner Air. Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/swanksalot/437821749/" target=_blank>Seth Anderson</a>, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en" target=_blank">(CC)</a>

DEC 18, 2008 Article

Obama Could Miss the Bus on Raising Gas Tax

Fighting the climate crisis will be as much about new incentives as about new technologies, and there are few incentives as reliable as price. Will ...