How Largely Hidden Trends Are Shattering the Global Trade System
Howy national conflicts, new concerns about security and supply chain risk, and technology are reshaping trade networks to be closer to home.
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We Won’t Have a Truly Global Economy Until We Tax It That Way
Tax is an enormously powerful tool for shaping economic policy and thus bears close watching.
Read more...The Best Law Capital Can Buy
A review of the important new book “The Code of Capital: How the law creates wealth and inequality.”
Read more...Let’s Make Sure We Get the Green New Deal Right
vid-19 throws a wrench in many of the assumptions underlying existing Green New Deal proposals.
Read more...Reviving the Economy, Creating the ‘New Normal’
Covid-19 rescues will reshape the economy, as we see in the US, with fat cats getting fatter. Will other countires make sounder choices?
Read more...Automation, Globalisation, and Vanishing Jobs
A new take on how automation and offshoring affect employment.
Read more...Coronavirus Recovery: Why Local Markets are Key to Reviving Our Locked Down Town Centres
Local markets, not supermarkets, are a key part of reviving city centres as the UK emerges from its coronavirus lockdown.
Read more...Scientists Around the World are Already Fighting the Next Pandemic
Scientists fight the next pandemic, driven by antibiotic resistance, where the technofix fairy won’t help, and the simplest solutions are the most sustainable.
Read more...U.S. Abandons Open Skies for New Age Space Weapons
The press has hyped the “gee whiz” factor of space toys while ignoring that exiting the Open Skies agreement will kick off a new arms race.
Read more...Condé Nast Hopelessly Botches Taking Paid Subscription As It Dumps Writers
Does Condé Nast not want your money?
Read more...COVID-19 Impact on the Fashion Industry: Slow Down
The pace of the wasteful fashion industry will slow as we learn to cope with COVID-19. Will sustainability become more than a buzzword?
Read more...Yes, You Can Drink the Water: Clean and Safe Public Water Supplies. Microplastics, A Plea for a Modest Post Coronavirus Priority
Leaders of countries should consider what they must do to ensure we can drink the water in a world after we have learned to cope with coronavirus.
Read more...Brexit: Posturing and Impasse
More Brexit chest-thumping.
Read more...Covid-19 Straw Breaks Free Trade Camel’s Back
Multilateral trade negotiations under WTO auspices have gone nowhere since the late 1990s,, and COVID-19 may be the final straw.
Read more...Exclusive: Countries To Face a ‘Wave’ of Corporate Lawsuits Challenging Emergency COVID-19 Measures
Will Covid-19 trigger reprehensible investor-state dispute settlement suits?
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