Paris Climate Summit: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By Steve Breyman
In the aftermath of the December 2015 Paris climate summit, it’s worth reviewing the final agreement. The text serves as a Rorschach...
From Hyper-Finance to Secular Stagnation & Mass Unemployment
By Michel-Henry Bouchet and Robert Isaak
In this article, the authors advocate policies to counter the decoupling of finance from the real economy of productive...
We Will Not Stop Talking about Racism
By Lawrence Ware and Rebecca Martinez
Many white people want to stop talking about racism. Consciousness implies action, and that kind of talking about race,...
How to Defeat Western Neo-Colonialism
By Andre Vltchek
The West managed to build its wealth, including the social nets, on plunder, deception, slavery and countless holocausts on all continents of...
Through the Ceiling and Over the Cliff? Catch-22 for Women Executives
This program for women executives combines business acumen with leadership development and career reflection. It’s an approach designed to strengthen the key skills needed...
Why Selling the SDGs Isn’t As Easy As ABC
By Belinda Goldsmith
Amid much hype and expectation, the 193 member states of the United Nations last September agreed on a new ambitious set of...
Make it New: The History of Silicon Valley Design
By Barry M. Katz
Barry Katz’s book Make it New: The History of Silicon Valley Design sets out to answer the question of how ‘design’...
Harvesting The Biosphere
By Vaclav Smil
Humanity has been harvesting an increasing share of the Earth’s photosynthetic productivity. This has already resulted in a new world where the...
The Internet in China: How the Network is Shaping the PRC’s Economic and Social...
By Eric Harwit
Chinese e-commerce and communications companies are playing leading roles in the nation’s continued Internet development. These corporations are expanding their roles in...
Is Brazil still “The Country of The Future”?
By Manoel Bittencourt
In this article Manoel Bittencourt argues that corruption is killing economic growth and prosperity in Brazil. Using standard economic theory and data...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
