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.

Renowned cellist Ignacio Alcover will perform and discuss classical selections from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Suite for Cello Solo BWV 1007, contemporary selections from Henri Dutilleux’s Suite for Cello Solo, and Haskel Small’s Une Strophe sur le Nom de Paul Sacher. Please join us for this very special musical evening.

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...

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...

A Sebastián Piñera victory would demonstrate that Chile is a country with a remarkable sense of balance, one whose voters recognize the need for political renewal in order to recapture their economic competitiveness for an even more promising future.

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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...

Before the dominance of rating agencies, investment banks had the responsibility for signaling sovereign creditworthiness by supporting after-issuance market-making in that debt.

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