State and Technological Revolution
The following account should sound familiar. Over the course of decades, feats of innovation re-engineer society, diffuse across countries and regions, and fundamentally alter...
Which Way for Europe on China?
Recognizing that the European Union is facing a number of vexing challenges on the world stage, Ursula von der Leyen, the new European Commission...
Trade war to cost global economy, US$700 billion
Kristalina Georgieva the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund sits down with Eleni Giokos of CNN Business to talk about growth on the...
If Wealth Is Justified, so Is a Wealth Tax
Economic inequality has moved to the top of the political agenda in many countries, including free-market poster children like the United States and the...
Growth could be Passé
It is clear: we are living beyond our planet’s limits. Unless we change something, the consequences will be dire. Should that something be our...
The Lives You Saved
A decade ago, I wrote The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty. This month, a fully revised Tenth Anniversary edition...
Natural-Born Climate Commitments
When world leaders gather at the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid from December 2-13, they will discuss concrete steps for...
Value Pluralism Is Essential for Sustainability
For much of 2019, news broadcasts and social media have been filled with unsettling images of forests engulfed in flames, leaving behind charred, dead...
Fall of the Berlin Wall and Social Democracy
It was already clear 30 years ago that the fall of the Berlin Wall would change everything. But precisely what that change would entail...
The West’s Arrested Social Development
After three decades of worsening economic inequality, advanced-country populations are angry, and they are taking their grievances to the ballot box or the streets....
