The essay in The Atlantic proposes global wealth cap, resonating with my 2016 message to the President of Brookings on wealth inequality.

Kevin Quigley and I drafted a 3,000-word essay last summer on "The Future of the Peace Corps". A short op-ed version has just been posted on

There is very little sense of community in my new residence. Does it matter? Is it related to the creation of the internet?

A surprising turn in the conflict in Burma gets priority in this Update; meanwhile all is going well at Parami University.

No new posts for more than two months because of my crazy life of travel and writing. I’m working on some topics of above-average interest.

Termessos is a city in Turkey that held off an attack by Alexander the Great in 333 BC. This is a story about historical preservation.

In 1981, I had been working in the US Treasury Department for more than five years on issues related to the roles of the IMF and World Bank.

Here is a favorite story from my youth. I told it to a friend in a conversation last week and he urged me to write it up and post it.

The Parami University story continues to amaze; the mess in Myanmar continues to distress all who hope for an end to the junta’s brutality.

The problems facing the world today seem endless and intractable. Don’t expect any breakthroughs at the IMF/World Bank meetings this week.

Last Oct, the Financial Times published my Letter to the Editor suggesting that banking needs to be boring again. Now Senator Warren agrees.

Here’s why “corporate social responsibility”, often simply CSR, is a reflection of a broken political/economic system.

If you came across references to Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), did you wonder if it is like cryptocurrency? Good CBDCs are very diff

Universal Basic Income sounds crazy but it has been tested and might be adopted in the USA before the end of this century.

During my one-week visit to Istanbul, I met two Turkish history professors who are experts on the Ottoman Empire. I have hard evidence now.

The father of my paternal grandfather, Alexis SORLIN-D’ORIGNY, lived in Constantinople and died there in 1884. But what was he doing there?

Youth unemployment is rising in countries at all income levels. If the trend continues, it could become seriously socially destabilizing.

Japan’s population is shrinking, but this is not a catastrophe as portrayed in many news reports and commentaries.

There is good news about Parami U, but the Mess in Myanmar has gotten messier.

Here are some thoughts on the “village movement” based on my experience in Washington, DC.