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Autos and the European Union: Another Crash?
Aug 30, 2021
In Europe, imbalances in the structure of the automotive and a lack of industrial policies risk creating a deadly cocktail for millions of European workers just as the auto sector is undergoing decisive changes.
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“We Are Running a Giant Experiment on Children”: Covid Deniers Put Kids at Risk
Aug 19, 2021
“Just learn to live with it” policies subject children to an experiment with a systemic disease that does serious and lasting damage, warns former NASA and DARPA technologist
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Why Did the Taliban Take Over Afghanistan So Fast?
Aug 18, 2021
The Taliban was strategic in its use of violence, exercising restraint to influence military assessments of their capabilities in order to encourage more rapid withdrawals.
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Libertarians and the Vaccine: Give Me Liberty and Give Them Death
Aug 9, 2021
If libertarians wish to maintain their self-centered fixation on their own freedoms without considering others, let them do so — in indefinite quarantine from the rest of us.
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Who Can Save Us From Jeff Bezos and Silicon Valley’s Planetary Death Wish?
Jul 30, 2021
The work of feminist thinkers helps illuminate why billionaires seek to solve problems on Earth by blasting into space.
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CIGI Celebrates 20 Years of Research and Expert Analysis
Jul 30, 2021
In 2021, the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) celebrates 20 years of contributing research and expert analysis to global policy making.
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Productive Bubbles
Jul 28, 2021
Occasionally, financial speculation fastens onto transformational technologies that have the potential to create a genuinely new economy.
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The One-Earth Balance Sheet
Jul 23, 2021
Getting the whole spectrum of governments, academia and civil society to track “natural capital” would help create shared efforts toward solving shared problems like the climate crisis.
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Reconstructing US-China Relations
Jul 22, 2021
The world-renowned development economist Jeffrey Sachs outlined a new framework for US-China relations in conversation with INET President Rob Johnson
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Could Modern Crises Stem from Problems in the Human Brain?
Jul 15, 2021
As a pandemic continues to expose weaknesses in our human systems and institutions, psychiatrist and author Iain McGilchrist’s proposition that a battle in our heads is impacting the direction of our future is worth revisiting.
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New Ecuadorian Government Teams Up with Powerful International Lobbies to Rejoin Investment Treaties Prohibited by the Constitution
Jul 14, 2021
Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) allow foreign capitalists to run roughshod over the rights of Ecuadorians
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics Counted Only Eight Strikes in 2020, Payday Report Counted 1,200
Jul 13, 2021
In the era of COVID and digital movements, strikes look radically different from traditional labor strikes
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The Economic Mechanism Behind the Populist Backlash to Globalization
Jul 12, 2021
The increase in populism that import competition causes has its roots in import competition’s adverse effects on local labor markets
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How Intel Financialized and Lost Leadership in Semiconductor Fabrication
Jul 7, 2021
Stock buybacks come at the cost of technological innovation
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Carbon Taxes: A Good Idea But Can They Be Effective?
Jun 28, 2021
A global carbon tax alone will not be enough to significantly reduce CO2 emissions