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People often complain about government wasting taxpayer dollars, but is that really true?

Dambisa Moyo is the author of "Winner Take All," "Edge of Chaos" and other books on politics and the economy.

News 1.4.11 The TIAA-CREF Institute has presented its 2010 Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security to Cabot professor of public policy and professor of economics Kenneth S. Rogoff and Carmen M. Reinhart, Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, coauthors of the best-selling book . The award honors the late Nobel Prize laureate Paul A. Samuelson, Ph.D. ’41, LL.D. ’72, for his achievements in the field of economics and his service as a CREF trustee from 1974 to 1985. The Samuelson Award is given annually i...

Collapse is a frightening subject. The question of why collapse occurs is something I have pieced together over many years of study from a number of different sources, which I will attempt to explain in this post. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Collapse doesn’t happen instantaneously; it happens many years after an economy first begins outgrowing its resource base. In fact, the resource base likely declines at the same time from multiple causes, such as soil erosion, deforestation and oil depletion. Before collapse occurs, the...

Putin's Problems Are Real — And It's Not Just Navalny Police at Jan. 23 protest in Moscow in support of Alexei Navalny - Mihail Tokmakov/SOPA Images/ZUMA       Russia may not be heading toward a full-blown revolution, at least not yet. But the current wave of protests shouldn't be dismissed either. PARIS — This Time Is Different was the title of a book devoted to the financial and economic crisis of 2007-2008. Could the same be said about the current situation in Russia? Depends on who you ask. On one extreme are those who say that the anti-Putin and Na...