303 Results for “COVID 19”

For several weeks, representatives of governments across the globe gathered in Glasgow to discuss plans for climate mitigation and adaptation. But the meetings were dominated by representatives of the world’s most advanced economies, often to the detriment of the places where the majority of the world’s population lives: the developing world.

Financial Times columnist and US editorial board chair Gillian Tett talks about her new book, Anthro-Vision, which makes the case for how anthropological intelligence can help us make better sense of the contemporary world.

The neoliberal economy was supposed to bring about a utopian world order. Instead, it gave us crippling psychological stress and social breakdown. How can we ever recover?

Martin Guzman, Argentina’s former Minister of Economy, explains how the role of power should be central to economic research – especially when it comes to sovereign debt.

Lincoln Mitchell, Political Science Professor at Columbia University, discusses the increasingly powerful fascist movement in the US., outlining the elements of fascism present in the MAGA movement, including its dependence on a strongman leader, the scapegoating of minorities, threats of violence and curtailing of freedoms of speech and assembly.

Louis Kuijs, Head of Asia Economics at Oxford Economics, based in Hong Kong, talks about China’s current economic strategy in the context of the pandemic and how China relates to the US, to the rest of the world, and to Hong Kong, in its effort to expand its influence

Rodney Jones, a long-time Asia analyst, colleague of Rob Johnson’s, and currently Principal of Wigram Capital Advisors in New Zealand, discusses how China and other Pacific Rim countries succeeded in containing the Covid-19 pandemic and what this means for the West’s rivalry with China

Whether it is called “Build Back Better” or a “Green Industrial Policy” or, indeed, a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false dichotomy of “jobs against climate.”

Yale Law School Fellow Stephen Roach, discusses his just-released book, Accidental Conflict. Roach explores how much of the adversarial nationalist rhetoric in both China and the USA is dangerously misguided and more a reflection of each nation’s fears and vulnerabilities than a credible assessment of the risks they face.

Historians Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University) and Erik Conway (Caltech) talk to Rob about their just released book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.

INET’s co-founder reviews new books about John Maynard Keynes and Frank Ramsey

Yide Qiao, the Secretary General of Shanghai Development Research Foundation, talks about the political, economic, and military dimensions of US-China relations

After years of amassing power, the tide is turning against the tech monopolies

Martín Guzmán, ex ministro de Economía de Argentina, explica cómo el rol del poder debe ser central en la investigación económica, especialmente cuando se trata de deuda soberana.