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AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future by Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan. London: WH Allen 2021. 480 pp., £14.99 paperback 9780753559017, £9.99 e-book 9780753559031
Discussions of…
Deborah Barros Leal Farias explains why Brazil and Peru are among the next likely members of the OECD.
This past June, the Organization Economic Co-Operation and…
Conflict, War, and Revolution: The Problem of Politics in International Political Thought. Paul Kelly. LSE Press. 2022.
In Conflict, War, and Revolution: The Problem of Politics…
Just been skimming an interesting new paper by Caroline Dommen, with an ambitious purpose – to brand and describe a new branch of economics – Human Rights Economics (HRE).
Her…
Understanding the human mind and behaviour lies at the core of the discipline of psychology. But to characterise how people’s behaviour changes over time, I believe psychology…
Our global economic system is failing. We need a fresh start to address the inequities of the past 80 years.
In 1944, with the Second World War still raging, US president Franklin…
On 18 July, the EU signed a new agreement with Azerbaijan aimed at increasing the country’s gas exports to Europe. Gubad Ibadoghlu assesses what the deal means for…
This blog by Maitland Murray was written as part of the LSE's DV455 MA module which GP's Online Editor co-teaches with Duncan Green. It is reposted here as its a great bit of…
At the recent AU Humanitarian Summit, finding African solutions to African problems was an important theme. What will it take to walk the talk?
In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia now…
With Boris Johnson’s departure, the drama of the Conservative leadership election, and Keir Starmer’s declaration that “integrity matters” in politics, the question of what…
Biden must release Afghanistan’s foreign reserves to alleviate suffering, argues Ecuador’s ex-central bank director.
"Hell on earth.” That’s how the World Food Programme’s…
What were the origins of European imperialism? Drawing on a new study, Jan P. Vogler explains that centuries of European interstate rivalries were an essential…
This blog by Andreas Brox was written as part of the LSE's DV455 MA module which GP's Online Editor co-teaches with Duncan Green. It is reposted here as its a great bit of…
Duncan Green urges investigators to focus on starvation methods in their extraordinary efforts to document war crimes in Ukraine and…
The “living with COVID” strategy being pursued by many countries relies heavily on two key pillars. First, that vaccines continue to protect most people from severe disease. And…