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Karl Muth argues that policymakers should approach suicide as a choice, and not a crime or a disease.
After a recent suicide in my own family, and having recently revised my will…
Karl T. Muth suggests Sony can fight back.
I've advised companies in serious, bet-the-company situations. I suggest that Sony is in such a situation: its decisions this week and…
Andy Sumner argues that it may be more useful to ask when aid works, not whether.
The policy debate around whether foreign aid—now $138.5 billion a year—works has been polarized…
Karl Muth explores how the form and manner of the UK’s integration with Europe is increasingly coming to define David Cameron’s career.
In the wake of UKIP successes in the…
The Post-2015 Consensus' latest set of papers suggest setting universal access to sexual and reproductive health services as a target for the post-2015 development agenda and…
Karl Muth suggests a way out of the polarised gridlock that has come to define Occidental liberal democracy.
When I was a teenager – during the Blair government and the Clinton…
The Post-2015 Consensus' seventh set of papers unpick the argument that promoting free trade as a target for the post-2015 development agenda could make everyone in the world…
Is minting a currency truly an early symptom of statehood or state-building?
To ISIS, state-building means something different from its use in development circles. It means the…
Karl Muth argues that the analysis of policy alignment – intranationally and internationally – can be examined using quantitative tools.
The historical approach to…
Karl Muth discusses the reputational, political and gender-related connotations of the use of ‘they’.
The singular plural as “they” has always bothered me, sounding to me like…