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Alastair Newton argues that despite its early mishandling of Covid-19, the pandemic will shift the global balance of power further in China’s favour.
“The new coronavirus is…
Scott Montgomery argues that, all things considered, ultra-cheap oil is not the world’s friend.
Oil shocks happen when prices suddenly ascend or crash. In the past, a skyward soar…
Newcastle University's Global Challenges Academy celebrates 70 years of global water research.
Engineering sustainable solutions to the world’s water problems is not a pipe…
Parliaments can contribute to more effective and accountable governance through monitoring the implementation, impact and unintended consequences of the laws they pass (otherwise…
Following on from his previous post, Branko Milanovic further explores the difficulty of comparing wealth over the ages and across societies.
A few days ago I…
Branko Milanovic explores the difficulty of comparing wealth over the ages and across societies.
It seems obvious. Let me start with the definitions that economists who work on…
What was Brexit all about? What will its most likely consequences for UK, EU, and the world economy at large? Renowned British economist Malcolm Sawyer, Emeritus Proferssor of…
Branko Milanovic explores three ways capitalism may be transcended.
After the crisis of 2007-8, capitalism has entered among some parts of the public opinion into an…
Cornelius Adebahr calls for a more proactive EU.
Teheran’s decision to abandon the uranium enrichment limits set in Iran nuclear deal put Europeans in a bind. They couldn’t leave…
We live in turbulent times. The world is in the midst of a geopolitical transition marked once again by imperial rivalries and the emergence of dangerous peripheral forces, all…