Commentary

Recently, some detractors of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1997 have made some outrageous claims

French Premier Lionel Jospin was right in rejecting the Communists' suggestion to prohibit layoffs a

China's elderly leaders don't go in much for tossing beach balls or frolicking in the surf during th

Several years ago, Diane Ravitch and Chester Finn asked, ''What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know?'' Their an

LONG ISLANDERS SUPPORTOVERHAUL OF UTILITYI was surprised to read the July 18 article entitle

For the first time in its history, London will have an elected mayor. Under a proposal unveiled by P

The United States and 11 of its trading partners have untangled a long-running dispute over how to c

FOREIGN INVESTMENTBENEFITS US ECONOMYRecent foreign investments in American shipping, shipbu

Professor Rudiger Dornbusch, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, proposes that Mexico ''do

The soaring hopes of the United Nations' 1992 Rio Earth Summit plummeted to earth recently as the wo

The recently concluded battle between Boeing and the European Union over Boeing's merger with McDonn

When Congress imposed the federal 55 mph speed limit in 1974, it did so to save lives. The argument

In the year ended June, the U.S. Treasury extracted a record $1.6 trillion from American taxpayers,

Since the time of Adam Smith, economists have generally argued that free economies will be productiv

The long and contentious history of the Canada-U.S. Pacific salmon relationship hit a crescendo when

Rapid improvements in the information sector offer the potential for a new medium for the delivery o

Bill Gates has created tens of thousands of jobs, dramatically improved the productivity of computer

Economists are still digging at the roots of the currency crisis in Southeast Asia, but governments

SUBSIDIES, CIVILITYAND MIKE TYSONYour July 16 opinion page included a column by an official

Ages ago - 1986 to be exact - there was a movement to make the Internal Revenue Code fairer and simp

Russia's sale of a 25 percent stake in the state's telephone giant, Svyazinvest, is a good move. But

The European Union isn't making many friends by its aggressive use of anti-dumping laws. While helpi

SOLUTION FOR AMTRAK:CAPITAL TRUST FUNDAfter working for years with Dr. Thomas D. Larson, coo

Like druids before an ancient stone monument, hundreds of anxious West Berliners faced the graffiti-

International trade has become the newest and most insidious way for criminals to launder their dirt

When I was a high school student in 1970 my friends and I collected signatures petitioning Congress

The trans-Atlantic furor over the proposed merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, and a recent pric

The midsummer business news - solid growth without inflation, soaring stocks and profits amid minima

The declining fortunes of American workers in the face of globalization have generated lots of hand-

SOCIAL SECURITY TAKESMONEY AND SQUANDERS ITSeveral points are being overlooked in the curren

President Clinton is big on teamwork - at least in theory. ''When companies and workers work as a te

Legislation that would expand the North American Free Trade Agreement is lurking just below the alre

How clean is clean enough, when it comes to environmental and health rules? Until now, the answer ha

As new U.S.-Japan aviation trade talks draw closer, speculation grows wilder.Washington and

One year ago, when Benjamin Netanyahu took office as prime minister, Israel's economic success was l

Someone must think I don't have enough credit cards.The college from which I graduated 24 ye

Suppose you owned an enchanted forest. Now suppose you had servants who sold the tall timber in your

Globalization holds the promise of boosting growth and raising world living standards. For companies

It doesn't take a lot of experience with the airline industry to know that the vast majority of inte

The Russian government this week took a big step on the long road to membership in the World Trade O