Articles by Jesse Alan Gordon

Under perpetual construction -- last updated November, 2001

International Policy

• The idiots’ guide to Pashtun: interview in the Boston Phoenix (2002, 3 pages)
• A Pashtun Primer: On Kashmir and Pashtunistan (2002, 2 pages)
• The Dove Principles: War policy in the War Against Terror (2001, 2 pages)
• Hong Kong Beyond 1997 An Interview with Governor Chris Patten and three Hong Kong Legislative Council Members (1993, 28 pages)
• America's Long Term Future Planning policy for the long-term, in which the US is one among equals in international power. (1995, 27 pages)
• Publicizing Tibet What can be done to help Tibet? A field study for a humanitarian aid group (1994, 10 pages)
• The Capital of Capitalism A reply to a conservative view of Hong Kong versus China (1991, 8 pages)
• Looking Toward Democracy Nigeria's elections and hope for the future (1991, 5 pages)
• Bubble Gum and Freedom Is Singapore's authoritarian form of capitalism a path to democracy for developing countries? (1993, 5 pages)
• Climbing Pao do Acucar Climbing a mountain in Rio de Janeiro (1992, 4 pages)

Domestic Policy

• Issues2002 Senatorial & Gubernatorial Candidates views on the Issues (2001-2002, 585 pages)
• Issues2000 Presidential Candidates views on the Issues (1999-2000, 435 pages)
• A Review of the National Performance Review How Al Gore's "Reinventing Government" campaign is just a little better than unreinvented government (1993, 7 pages)
• Military Immorality An opposing view of Colin Powell's "Bottom-Up Review" (1993, 6 pages)
• Technological Libertarianism Why technology policy should focus on a free market, and what the government should (and shouldn't) do to keep technology progressing (1994, 7 pages)
• Fighting the Drug War on the Emotional Front The prohibitionists will eventually lose their rational arguments. How do we answer their emotional appeals? (1995, 7 pages)
• A Republican Mandate? Not! The 1994 "Republican Landslide" from a non-Republican non-Democrat persepctive. (1994, 3 pages)

Environment and Development

• Monitoring & Evaluation of Rural Watershed Councils For the North American Fund for Environmental Cooperation, successes and failures in starting cooperative councils to solve watershed-wide pollution and development issues. (1998, 180 pages)
• Watershed Economics: Agribusiness versus Recreation For the The Buffalo River Stewardship Foundation, an analysis of pollution and recreation trends on Arkansas' Buffalo River, America's first National River. A complete economic and political evaluation. (1996, 92 pages)
• Executive Summary 2-page summary of "Watershed Economics: Agribusiness versus Recreation"
• Comments on "How To Save a River"An Open Letter to River Network on Environmental Economics
• Buffalo River press clippings, quotations in "American Whitewater", "Earth Island Journal", and the "Newton County Times"
• Financing Energy Conservation Overcoming Barriers to Implementing the Massachusetts Clean State Initiative: A study for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (1994, 87 pages)
• Using the Market to Reduce Global Warming Applicability of Tradable Emissions Permits to a Global Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program: An analysis of issues facing Global Warming treaty negotiations, and a comparison of US sulfur dioxide emission permits as a model for an international carbon dioxide emissions market (1991 and 1993, 34 pages)
• Modern Malthusianism Book Review of Paul Kennedy's "Preparing for the Twenty-First Century" (1993, 5 pages)
• Accounting for Sustainable Development A method to include environmental factors in GDP calculations (1994, 6 pages)
• Third Wave Environmentalism Viewing environment through an economic lens (1995, 2 pages)
• Making Sense in the Arctic Political Climate An Environmental Economist’s Argument Against Drilling in Alaska (1994, 6 pages)

Local issues: Cambridge, Massachusetts

• Living the cohousing way: Cornerstone Cohousing in North Cambridge has its first residents. (2001, 2 pages)
• Your every-number vote counts: The Cambridge City Council's "Proportional Representation" system. (2001, 2 pages)
• Tear Down This Fence! Fresh Pond for People. (2001, 2 pages)
• A glimpse into Fresh Pond’s History: A response to the Fresh Pond article above. (2001, 2 pages)
• Central Arteriosclerosis: The Big Dig as Big Pork. (2001, 2 pages)

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