In that regard, we welcome the visit to New York by a delegation from the International Fact Finding Commission, led by its President, Sir Kenneth Keith.

People like Kenneth Miller could be called a godsend to the evolution lobby because they expose the lie that evolutionism is, as a matter of fact, tantamount to atheism.

I think you can make fun of the have but not the have nots, which is why you don't see me making fun of Kenneth Lay and his charming wife.

It is hard to imagine that such a nuclear attack would have remained merely tactical. Kenneth Waltz, an American scholar, recently published an article entitled Why Iran Should Get the Bomb.

In the end, Kenya's athlete Kenneth Mungara won the championship of men's group in 2 13 38, and Ethiopian runner Gulume Tollesa won the championship of women's group in 2 29 36.

This book, Finding Darwin's God, by Kenneth Miller, is one of the most effective attacks on Intelligent Design that I know, and it's all the more effective because it's written by a devout Christian.

First, governments would be better served by focusing on stability, even if it means sacrificing some output. As Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart have shown, financial crises are costly because recoveries from them are slow.

In an intimate talk, Barry Schwartz dives into the question How do we do the right thing? With help from collaborator Kenneth Sharpe, he shares stories that illustrate the difference between following the rules and truly choosing wisely.

So it was natural to ask economist advocates of bleeding like Harvard s Alberto Alesina and Kenneth Rogoff how they expected their cure to work. Their answer was that the belief that it would work the confidence fairy would ensure its success.

CHICAGO Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, in their excellent, eponymous book on debt crises, argue that the most dangerous words in any language are This time is different. Perhaps the next most dangerous words are Next time will be different.

In the first ballot, six candidates, Mohamed Bennouna (Morocco), Thomas Buergenthal (United States of America), Julio D. Gonzáles Campos (Spain), Kenneth Keith (New Zealand), Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor (Mexico) and Leonid Skotnikov (Russian Federation), obtained the required absolute majority of votes.

Social choice theory in its modern and systematic form owes its rigorous foundation to the work of Kenneth J. Arrow in his 1950 Columbia University PhD dissertation. Arrow s thesis contained his famous impossibility theorem, an analytical result of breathtaking elegance and reach.

As Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff tell it in their masterly book This Time is Different, there is no secure way of short circuiting a deep banking crisis. The crisis originates with excessive debt accumulation, which makes economies vulnerable to crises of confidence.

Indeed, he once chided John Kenneth Galbraith for enunciating a long list of prerequisites for foreign aid to be effective. If developing countries could meet these conditions, he wrote, they would be in a position to send foreign aid to the United States!

As Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff argue, recoveries from crises that result from over leveraged balance sheets are slow and typically resistant to traditional macroeconomic stimulus. Over levered households cannot spend, over levered banks cannot lend, and over levered governments cannot stimulate.

In short, Arab countries are hemorrhaging social capital, which can significantly derail economic recovery and state building. As the Nobel laureate economist Kenneth Arrow argued in 1972, much of the economic backwardness in the world can be explained by the lack of mutual confidence.

In their widely cited paper Growth in a Time of Debt, Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart argue that, when government debt exceeds 90 of GDP, countries suffer slower economic growth. Many Western countries national debt is now dangerously near, and in some cases above, this critical threshold.

Yet the dollar, a symbol of American financial power, has surged rather than declined. As Kenneth Rogoff, a Harvard professor and former chief economist of the IMF notes, It is ironic, given that we just messed up big time, that the response of foreigners is to pour more money into us.

CAMBRIDGE It has been a while since a debate among academic economists attracted so much interest from the mainstream press as has the row between Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, on one side, and Paul Krugman, on the other. In fact, it has even become fodder for television comedy shows.

CANBERRA The brouhaha over Carmen Reinhart s and Kenneth Rogoff s article Growth in a Time of Debt may be the most conspicuous and incendiary scholarly controversy since 1974, when two earlier economists, Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, published a notorious book, Time on the Cross, defending the efficiency of American plantation slavery.

Mr. Mohamed Bennouna (Morocco), Mr. Thomas Buergenthal (United States of America), Mr. Kenneth Keith (New Zealand), Mr. Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor (Mexico) and Mr. Leonid Skotnikov (Russian Federation) were therefore elected members of the International Court of Justice for a term of office of nine years, beginning on 6 February 2006.

But the risk sharing inherent to Islamic finance made such instruments more resistant to the first round of financial contagion that hit in 2008. Leading economists, such as Harvard University s Kenneth Rogoff, have suggested that Islamic finance demonstrates the advantages of more equity and risk sharing over the conventional bias in favor of debt instruments.

MILAN In a recent set of studies, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff used a vast array of historical data to show that the accumulation of high levels of public (and private) debt relative to GDP has an extended negative effect on growth. The size of the effect incited debate about errors in their calculations.

Those crisis countries that do not want to take it upon themselves to lower their prices should be given the opportunity to leave the eurozone temporarily in order to devalue prices and debts. In other words, they should take a kind of euro sabbatical a proposal that has now also been taken up by American economist Kenneth Rogoff.

The revolt made little progress in the years of the Great Moderation of the 2000s, but was revived following the 2008 crisis. Two important links with the earlier network are US economist James Galbraith, the son of John Kenneth Galbraith, and British economist Ha Joon Chang, author of the best selling 23 Things They Don t Tell You about Capitalism.

CAMBRIDGE When the stakes are high, it is no surprise that battling political opponents use whatever support they can garner from economists and other researchers. That is what happened when conservative American politicians and European Union officials latched on to the work of two Harvard professors Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff to justify their support of fiscal austerity.

In the late 1960 s and early 1970 s, Phelps s encounters with Amartya Sen, John Rawls, and Kenneth Arrow at Stanford revived his philosophical streak. He had extremely valuable intellectual conversations with Rawls, prompting him to write several essays on the theory of economic justice and publish a book on the subject in 1974 a book still used today.

Asia is, of course, experiencing rapid economic growth, but managing the region s strong nationalist tensions calls for the creation of regional security structures, together with closer economic integration. Complicating matters even more is what US scholar Kenneth Lieberthal and Wang Jisi, the dean of international studies at Peking University, called in a recent paper for the Brookings Institution strategic distrust.

NEW DELHI Why do high profile economic tussles turn so quickly to ad hominem attacks? Perhaps the most well known recent example has been the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman s campaign against the economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, in which he moved quickly from criticism of an error in one of their papers to charges about their commitment to academic transparency.

Even if one accepts the claim of the Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff that very high public debt levels mean lower growth a view that they never really established and that has subsequently been discredited Australia is nowhere near that threshold. Its debt GDP ratio is only a fraction of that of the US, and one of the lowest among the OECD countries.

Egypt s public debt is around 80 of GDP, very close to the 90 level that economists Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart identify as a harbinger of slower growth and heightened vulnerability to financial and fiscal crises. Egyptians need only glance north, at the European debt crisis, to understand they should sort out their debt problem now, rather than waiting until it reaches Greek proportions.

Second, depending on the institution s mandate, a state led investment program offers a way to rebalance the British economy away from private speculative activity to long term investment in sustainable growth, and away from the south east to the midlands and the north of England. In short, it offers a way to address the problem of private affluence and public squalor that John Kenneth Galbraith identified in the 1950s.

The first account relied on the view, most closely associated with the economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, that recovery from a recession takes longer if the cause was a crash in housing and financial markets. But this historical pattern is more a statement about the magnitude of the initial decline and the time needed to recover fully than a prediction about the annual rate of growth during the recovery phase.

It was this system of financial intermediation whose near collapse in 2008 seemed for many to justify the ancient warnings of the perils of indebtedness. In their exhaustive historical review of financial crises, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff write Again and again, countries, banks, individuals, and firms take on excessive debt in good times without enough awareness of the risks that will follow when the inevitable recession hits.