To compete and thrive in the 21st century, democracies, and the United States in particular, must develop new national security and economic strategies that address the geopolitics of information. In the 20th century, market capitalist democracies geared infrastructure, energy, trade, and even social policy to protect and advance that era’s key source of power—manufacturing. In this century, democracies must better account for information geopolitics across all dimensions of domestic policy and national strategy.
Biography
Joseph Kalt is a former Faculty Affiliate with the Environment and Natural Resources Program.
He is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School. His research focuses on exploring the economic implications and political origins of government regulation of markets. He also heads the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. Kalt has published widely in the area of natural resources economics and policy. He is the author of The Economics and Politics of Oil Price Regulation: Federal Policy in the Post-Embargo Era, Drawing the Line on Natural Gas Regulation (with F.C. Schuller) and What Can Tribes Do? Strategies and Institutions in American Indian Economic Development (with Steven Cornell). Kalt received his B.A. from Stanford University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles.
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