economics

Climate change means more weather extremes but it could make summer heatwaves more deadly in future Nathan Sterner talks with Dr. Roger Peng of Johns Hopkins about his research.  Then, a new Brookings Institution report on our cities and suburbs has some surprising findings about where crime is down…and where it’s up.

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama, one of our leading political economists, created a sensation and ignited a debate over his proclamation that liberal democratic capitalism would prevail around the globe, even in places (the Islamic world, for instance) where democracy seemed far-fetched. Fukuyama, affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, joins us on Midday in what has become known as the Arab spring, with populist uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, and with grumblings from China.