For too long, and on too many issues, policymakers have left the governance of technology in the hands of those who design it. Governments face three imperatives...
messages.detailsThe pandemic made a global economic slowdown much worse. Maybe its time to rethink a system based on endless growth.
messages.detailsScottish advocates of leaving the United Kingdom need a plan for a new currency and an independent central bank...
messages.detailsIf Japans new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, wants to emerge from the shadow cast by his predecessor, he will need to devise a compelling message
messages.detailsFirms that manage to survive until an effective COVID-19 vaccine is widely available will have a bright future but weak balance sheets. Innovative new private-equity funds, modeled on US special-purpose acquisition companies, could provide much-needed cap
messages.detailsAlthough it can be politically expedient to draw a thick line between capitalist decentralization and socialist central planning, the truth is that these two systems have converged on many occasions...
messages.detailsLife is not the Olympics, where talent and training determine an athlete’s performance. It’s more like a Roman arena in which well-armed gladiators vanquish unarmed ...
messages.detailsEven if the latest scandals in banking reveal nothing new about the financial industrys ethical standards, they have put a spotlight on a bigger emerging problem the complicity of law enforcement agencies in white-collar crime.
messages.detailsAs technocrats increasingly fill key government roles, U.S. officials need to help Baghdad withstand the inevitable counterpunch from political and militia factions used to dictating such appointments.
messages.detailsTo strengthen Iraq’s capacity for resisting militia and foreign influence, Washington should keep supporting the campaign to remake the military one commander at a time.
messages.detailsThe blasts that ripped through Beirut’s historic port could hardly have come at a worse time, as the city struggles with the coronavirus pandemic and an economic crisis...
messages.detailsMany of the failures of GDP as a measure of economic performance are well known. Policymakers in search of an alternative should recognize the far-reaching power of healthy life expectancy as a measure
messages.detailsHow can the economic outlook appear so bleak, while economists remain upbeat? Not all recessions affect people equally.
messages.detailsPolicymakers and the public at large understand the importance of innovation to economic growth and well being.
messages.detailsAlthough robots that can perform human labor will put downward pressure on wages in the short term, they also will increase the rate of profit, encouraging more investment and a recovery in the wage rate....
messages.detailsThe COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the long-term shift away from cash, and monetary authorities risk falling behind. A recent report from the G30 argues that if central banks want to shape the outcome, they need to start thinking fast.
messages.detailsEstablishing a credible National Wealth Fund would help to alleviate the countrys multiple crises.
messages.detailsGlobalization has given rise to legitimate frustrations and concerns, which can’t be assuaged simply by recalling the enormous benefits it has brought.
messages.detailsDuring the 2009 swine flu pandemic, a few countries cornered the vaccine market, leaving the vast majority of the global population with no vaccine at all until the outbreak was effectively over.
messages.detailsRocket attacks by Iranian proxy groups in Iraq have been a common feature of the Iraqi security landscape over the past two decades, often causing material damage and on occasion killing and injuring Americans and Iraqis.
messages.detailsThe COVID-19 pandemic has exposed many flaws in advanced economies, not least the fact that inequality can be deadly. The case for giving all citizens a capital endowment – reflecting both their inalienable dignity and society’s return on its public inves
messages.detailsThe scientific conference entitled (Coronavirus and its psychological, social, and political effects) was launched on Wednesday.
messages.detailsGiven that the COVID-19 crisis demands unprecedented levels of stimulus spending, policymakers should use the occasion to adopt a more flexible form...
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