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Can Shrinking Be Good for Japan? A Marxist Best Seller Makes the Case.

When Kohei Saito decided to write about “degrowth communism,” his editor was understandably skeptical. Communism is unpopular in Japan. Economic growth is gospel.So a book arguing that Japan should view […]




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Why What We Thought About the Global Economy Is No Longer True

When the world’s business and political leaders gathered in 2018 at the annual economic forum in Davos, the mood was jubilant. Growth in every major country was on an upswing. […]




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Have the Anticapitalists Reached Harvard Business School?

At Harvard, in “Capitalism and the State,” colloquially known as CATS, Ms. Spar asked her students to flip their name cards sideways if they felt globalization was ultimately a good […]




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Why China’s Young People Are Embracing Chairman Mao

They read him in libraries and on subways. They organized online book clubs devoted to his works. They uploaded hours of audio and video, spreading the gospel of his revolutionary […]