Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

09 April 2018
Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists and the Making of Global China. Julian Gewirtz. Harvard University Press. 2017. I can still remember the days when we sang…
09 April 2018
As antisemitism appears to be on the rise across a number of countries, Gervase Phillips provides important background. Antisemitism is on the march. From the far-right…
06 April 2018
Can a model for facilitating the integration of refugees into local labor markets and economies be found from ongoing research in and around Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh? Just ask the…
05 April 2018
As a trade war looms, James Parisot and Salvador Santino F. Regilme Jr. explore the USA's response to rising powers. The world appears to be shifting into an era of intensified…
05 April 2018
Irene Bucelli, of the LSE and Franziska Mager, of Oxfam GB, summarize the results from an Oxfam volunteer research project. When it comes to inequality, a growing body of evidence…
04 April 2018
One morning in 1914, Henry Ford made an announcement that shocked the US, if not the whole world. A Cleveland newspaper reported that it “shot like a blinding rocket through the…
04 April 2018
English has achieved prime status by becoming the most widely spoken language in the world – if one disregards proficiency – ahead of Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. English is…
03 April 2018
You can't understand the Cambridge Analytica scandal until you understand what its parent company does. "The Gulf War Did Not Take Place". This audacious claim was made by the…
03 April 2018
The business innovation author and speaker on 'onlyness' and how to unlock our individual and collective capacities. As a former executive at Apple and Autodesk, and consultant…
29 March 2018
In a world that is dominated by money, as the only universal means of exchange, how would our democracies, economies and societies look like if values were a central part of our…