Dollars & Sense Issue 334 (January/February 2018)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

features

Whatever Happened to Development?
Why have so few countries—out of about 120 newly independent countries that have emerged since World War II—achieved successful development?
Jawied Nawabi

Worst-Case Economics
Understanding the economics of extreme events in climate change and financial instability. 
An Interview with Frank Ackerman

the regulars

editor’s note | Ideas for Better Taxes
the short run
making sense | Let’s Try Employer-Side Payroll Taxes
comment | Trump and National Neoliberalism, Revisited
up against the Wall Street Journal | State Millionaires’ Taxes Do Work
in review | Keith Payne, The Broken Ladder
ask dr. dollar | Is Economic Growth Compatible with Ecological Sustainability?