Between Heaven and the Deep Blue Sea: Kitimat’s strategic placement facilitates a growing economy
By Rose Klukas
“At Kitimat the setting for a good life must be hewn out of the unknown wilderness. Pioneers must become old-timers, bound to...
Logistics Clusters: The Feedback Loop Leading to Economic Growth and Jobs
By Yossi Sheffi
Governments around the world are investing in logistics clusters to encourage economic growth and create jobs. While the advantages of high-technology, knowledge-based...
Dividends – Everything you know is wrong!
By David Hogarty
The world is constantly changing. We see it all the time. Yesterday’s league leaders become today’s relegation battlers. Alternative misfits become mainstream...
Asset Price Bubbles: Lessons From The Recent Financial Crisis
By Douglas Evanoff, George Kaufman & Anastasios G. Malliaris
The successful performance of the U.S. economy during the ‘Great Moderation’ period of 1984 to 2006...
Keynes, Kant and Capital Flows
By Oliver Bush
This is an abridged and altered version of Bush, O, Farrant, K and Wright, M (2011), ‘Reform of the International Monetary and...
Is Venture Capital In Crisis?
By Douglas Cumming & Sofia Johan
The recent financial crisis cannot totally be blamed for the marked drops in venture capital fundraising, reduced venture investment...
Can We Afford to Live Longer in Better Health?
By Frank Pellikaan & Ed Westerhout
Rising longevity, low fertility and declining disability have serious implications for public finances. Although alternative assumptions on longevity and...
Sino-Russian relations: More rhetoric than substance?
By Robert Bedeski & Niklas Swanström
Despite some re-engagement between China and Russia since Putin’s initial embrace of the West, the positive rhetoric of today...
How the United States Can Improve Energy and Climate Policies
By Daniel C. Esty & Steve Charnovitz
Energy policy needs to be part of a multi-prong, market-oriented competitiveness strategy. Proper price signals could internalize of...
Do You Own The Decisive Moment of Truth With Your Customers?
By Craig Pumfrey
In every customer interaction is a moment of truth, a point when they will decide to take a course of action that...
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...
