Social Policy Starts at Home
Political economy has come a long way. Many figures and institutions that have long embraced neoliberalism increasingly recognize the failures of markets and acknowledge...
Right Response to the Libra Threat
Facebook’s plan to launch a new digital currency, Libra, within a year has won few friends. Regulators, policymakers, and academics reacted to the news...
Middle East looking to China
Middle Eastern leaders seem to be in a race to gain favor with China. While the region buzzes with criticism of US policy, its...
Trump’s War on Evidence
Decision-making based on evidence rather than superstition was a driving force behind the Industrial Revolution, and the collection of statistics has, accordingly, become a...
Remembering the Miracle of 1989
This month marks 30 years since Europe – and human civilization generally – began to undergo a miraculous transformation that is now etched in...
Can Ethics Be Taught?
Can taking a philosophy class, more specifically a class in practical ethics, lead students to act more ethically?
Teachers of practical ethics have an obvious...
Case for an EU Climate and Nature Czar
As Europe roasts through another record-hot summer, it is encouraging to see that climate change is receiving the attention it deserves from Ursula von...
Inequality of Nations
The eighteenth-century British economist Adam Smith has long been revered as the founder of modern economics, a thinker who, in his great works The...
The Puzzle of Economic Progress
Do we know how economies develop? Obviously not, it seems, or otherwise every country would be doing better than it currently is in these...
ECB Loosening Is Not Enough
If indications of disappointing economic growth in the eurozone are confirmed, the European Central Bank will loosen monetary policy further in September. Last week,...
