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April 30, 2013 12:07 PM Can Corporate Social Responsibility Improve Labor Standards?

The disaster in Bangladesh has led to much heated discussion in the blogosphere and elsewhere about how best to improve labor and safety standards for workers in the developing world. Can corporate social responsibility help do this? Richard M. Locke,...

By Henry Farrell

April 25, 2013 12:35 PM How to Reduce Carbon Emissions: Listen to Business

Barack Obama (2009) : President Obama is offering a U.S. target for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the range of 17% below 2005 levels by 2020…. In light of the President’s goal for an 83% reduction in GHG emissions...

By James Wimberley

March 06, 2013 1:17 PM Amazon and the Modern Condition

This Strossian insight brought to you by The Browser Amazon isn’t a store, not really. Not in any sense that we can regularly think about stores. It’s a strange pulsing network of potential goods, global supply chains, and alien associative...

By Henry Farrell

March 05, 2013 8:23 AM Why Americans Are Happy About Foreign Trade Again

A recent Gallup Poll has found that Americans have become remarkably more positive about foreign trade. Below is the key graph: This is a pretty major shift that could bode well for President Obama’s announced plans for a new transatlantic...

By Erik Voeten

February 07, 2013 10:58 AM Where Does the Corporation Fit in a Democracy?

[There is] a gross mismatch between the corporate world we inhabit and the liberal individualist frames we use to interpret and address this world. It is commonplace, for example, to describe the United States as modern, liberal, democratic, market oriented,...

By Seth Masket