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EMERALD MIRACLE   CHRIS EDWARDS
In the mid-1980s, Ireland was a backwater with an average income level 30 percent below that of the European Union. Today, Irish incomes are 40 percent above the EU average.

SARKOZY'S NEW EUROPEANS   ANNE APPLEBAUM
There are better-paying jobs in London, taxes are lower in London, the economy grows faster in London: C'est la vie—and tough luck for Paris.

GEORGIA ON HIS MIND   MELIK KAYLAN
"The government is going to help you in the best way possible, by doing nothing for you, by getting out of your way."

EVERYDAY KENYANS TAKING STOCK IN A GROWING AFRICAN ECONOMY
STEPHANIE MCCRUMMEN
"We're becoming enlightened. Land is just sleeping capital."

ECONOMIC REFORMS ENRICH INDIA'S MIDDLE CLASS   PETER FOSTER
"We succeed despite government, not because of it."

THE GROWTH OF A NATION   MICHAEL BARONE
America keeps changing and growing, often in ways we fail to anticipate.

CHINA'S NEW REVOLUTIONARIES: U.S. CONSUMERS   NATHAN GARDELS
Thanks to globalization, China's export reliance on the U.S. market has imported the political demands of the U.S. consumer into the equation.

WHAT WENT RIGHT?   ROBERT TRACINSKI
The great story of the second half of the 20th century is the non-collapse of civilization.

DUMB DECISIONS: WHY THE GREAT DEPRESSION WASN'T INEVITABLE   NICOLE GELINAS
Before it acts, the government should be humbled by its hidden power: the power to make things worse instead of better.

INDIA'S ENTREPRENEURS CHOOSE SUCCESS AND LONG HOURS   PETER FOSTER
"We both had an instinct that we needed to do something that created value both for ourselves and this country and that wasn't going to be achieved by being a salaried employee."

HOW TO KEEP OUR BRIDGES SAFE   STEVEN MALANGA
The problem is that 98% of our bridges and 97% of our roads are owned and operated by state and local governments—and that these governments have often used past increases in federal transportation aid simply to replace their own infrastructure spending.

WHAT REALLY BUYS HAPPINESS?   ARTHUR C. BROOKS
Economic inequality doesn't frustrate Americans at all. It is, rather, the perceived lack of economic opportunity that makes us unhappy. To focus our policies on inequality, instead of opportunity, is to make a grave error.

STEAMING INTO THE FUTURE   KIRKPATRICK SALE
In the 20 years after the first steamboat on the Mississippi, more people were drawn to middle America—2.4 million—than the original colonies had attracted in 200 years.

THE ENTREPRENEUR GAP   THOMAS LIFSON
If health care, housing, transportation, and other basic living needs are assured, why bother with extra effort, especially if it benefits the state more than it benefits the person extending the effort?

AN INVESTMENT IN FAILURE   THOMAS SOWELL
Blacks who rise out of poverty are of no great interest to the left, unless the way they do so is by attacking society.

'POVERTY' IN AMERICA   ROBERT RECTOR
Three quarters of these "poor" own a car and nearly a third have two or more cars.

HAPPY FOR THE WORK   ARTHUR C. BROOKS
Obviously, there is a point beyond which work is excessive and lowers life quality. But within reasonable bounds, if happiness is our goal, the American formula of hard work appears to function pretty well.

THREE CENTURIES OF AMERICAN DECLINISM   ALAN DOWD
Just as the past is littered with unfulfilled predictions by the declinists, the present is teeming with evidence of unprecedented U.S. power.

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