Dan Drezner (and Mark Thoma) liked Adam Posen’s critique of Germany’s emphasis on “competitiveness.”  But when I read parts of Posen’s argument, I kept thinking that he was describing the US or China…

is at least making the right noises ...  The informal institutions that help govern the global economy - institutions like the G-7 -- do need to evolve.   So do the formal institutions for global e…

the tone of this Economist article (particularly in the last few paragraphs) seemed a bit off - though it is far better than the Economist's leader, which somehow fails to assign any responsibility t…