Best of the Week: September 5-11, 2010
10. Liability and Excessive Risk Taking: Historical Evidence from Britain's Banks -- Richard S. Grossman & Masami Imai and Mortgage Rates and Home Prices -- David Leonhardt
9. Free Speech Helped Avert Quran Burning -- Jack M. Balkin, They Used to Burn Catholic Churches, Now They Burn Mosques -- Juan Cole, and Catholics, Muslims, and the Mosque -- John T. McGreevy & R. Scott Appleby
8. Is Chinese Mercantilism Good or Bad for Poor Countries? -- Dani Rodrik
7. Did the Federal Government Create the Great Divergence? Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5 -- Timothy Noah and It's Not the Party; It's the Policies -- Robert Pollin
6. The Specter Haunting the Senate -- Michael Tomasky, People Don't Listen to the President -- Ezra Klein, and Waves Are for Surfing -- Daniel Hopkins
5. Health Care: The Disquieting Truth -- Arnold Relman and Why the ER Is So Crowded -- Ezra Klein
4. The Crime Wave That Shames the World -- Robert Fisk
3. Insights from the Afghan Field -- Anatol Lieven and Top Ways 9/11 Broke Islamic Law -- Juan Cole
2. Hard Times for Workers on Labor Day 2010 and Holding Wal-Mart Accountable -- Harold Meyerson, Confessions of a Serial Liberty-Reducer -- Peter Dorman, and Why Obama Is Proposing Whopping Corporate Tax Cuts, and Why He's Wrong -- Robert Reich
1. Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds -- Michael Lewis
BONUS: Keynes's Conference and Morgenthau's Dream -- Eric Rauchway and How FDR's Concessions Saved the Social Security Act -- David M. Kennedy