July – August 2014
Brazil: Shaping a New Strategy for Global Trade & Investment How Finance is Shaping the Economies of China, Japan, and Korea EU Post-Crisis Resilience and Fragility: Collateral Damage or Global Recovery The Bubble Economy: Is Suitable Growth Possible? Global Governance The World Bank and Neoliberalism: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Making of an Agenda TPP and Global Governance Embedding Security in the Internet of Things Luxury Industry Media & Culture Interpretation of Happiness and the Sense of Happiness Healthcare Industry A System Perspective on India’s Healthcare Industry Urban Development
Global Economy
The Rise of the Petroyuan and the Slow Erosion of Dollar Hegemony
Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
Marcos Troyjo
Yung Chul Park, Hugh Patrick, and Larry Meissner
Irene Finel-Honigman
Robert U Ayres
The National Origins of Policy Ideas
John L. Campbell and Ove K. Pedersen
Howard Stein
Junji NakagawaScience & Technology
Genetic Technology in the Global Economic Environment
Richard C. Jennings
Jim Carlsson
Luxury Brands Need to Chart a Course into New Frontier Markets
Glyn Atwal and Douglas Bryson
Internationalising Media Studies
Daya Thussu
BAO Zonghao
China’s Path to Health Policy Reform
Åke Blomqvist
Lawton Robert Burns
Urban Development In India
A. Panagariya, P. Chakraborty & M. Govinda Rao
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons and the Eclipse of Capitalism
The third Industrial Revolution is on its way. New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and services, precipitating the meteoric rise of a global Collaborative Commons and the eclipse of capitalism.
The Future of Work
Many jobs didn’t exist a decade ago. New technology creates new jobs, but can eradicate jobs too. Below, Ian Pearson discusses the future of work and technology, and addresses the business and managerial impacts of future technology, future careers, and the restructuring of offices.
India: Domestic Lenses for a Global Vision for the 21st Century
India has emerged as one of the world’s six leading nations. Its global ambitions, however, are mired by difficult domestic circumstances and myopic national lenses. Jean Pierre Lehmann charts India’s economic standing throughout history to understand how this nation can move beyond its current difficulties.
America’s Shale Revolution and the Dangerous Myth of Energy Independence
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
Proponents of energy independence enshrine America’s so-called “shale revolution” as a geopolitical game changer, enabling the United States to leverage its prospective exports of shale oil and gas to weaken uncooperative hydrocarbon powers. Below, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett argue that the shale revolution will not give the United States anything close to meaningful energy independence—something America shouldn’t seek anyway. The authors suggest that embracing the mythology of energy independence reinforces official Washington’s aversion to serious diplomacy with strategic rivals, thereby exacerbating America’s self-damaging and unnecessary confrontations with countries like Russia and Iran.
Company Boards in China and India – Functioning on Half a Brain?
Studies have shown that companies perform better when there is an equal representation of women at senior levels. However, some countries have a noticeable lack of female leaders. This article focuses on how China and India need to find their own paths towards ensuring greater female participation in corporate leadership.
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The Performance and Transformation Orchestrator: The CFO’s New Mandate in the Age of AI
By Terence Tse
CFOs are evolving into AI-driven transformation orchestrators, balancing finance, technology, and strategy while upskilling teams, managing risks, and driving measurable business value.
A key insight from this year’s AI for CFOs event, organized...
