There will always be anti-Americanism in Europe. On gun control, the death penalty, genetically modified foods, the size of the state and the role of religion, the two continents are at loggerheads. But there is no point in exacerbating the split with my-way-or-the-highway rhetoric.

No other organization has had a bigger impact on the economic policy of developing nations than the World Bank, yet its policies have been the subject of intense criticism. A recent book, The World's Banker (Penguin Press, September 2004), by Washington Post columnist Sebastian Mallaby chronicles and...

Review of The World's Banker: A Story of Failed States, Financial Crises, and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations, by Sebastian Mallaby.

A review of Sebastian Mallaby's The World's Banker.

Which economic ideas are the most powerful, and which are the most frequently misunderstood? How can economists communicate more effectively with policymakers and with the public? And why has economics, unlike physics or biology, failed to deliver shelves full of bestselling books and documentaries? Tim Harford presents ideas from his...

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In their new book Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World (Oxford University Press, 2006), AEI visiting scholar and Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith and Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu challenge...

How more cynical can you get than to put the architect of the Iraq war in charge of the world's premier development agency? ask newspaper editorials and relief agencies across western Europe. Will he not bend the bank to his will and use it to push his agenda of spreading democracy by force?

Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu challenge the belief that the Internet is--and should remain--a free, borderless, and ungovernable medium.