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Five steps for closing the transatlantic productivity gap
American companies embraced new information technologies 20 years ago, while Europeans are still hesitating. Bruno Maçães sets out a digital catch-up strategy. ...
Hegemonic Power and Varieties of Neoliberalism
In a lecture delivered in Vienna in 1935, the German philosopher Edmund Husserl expressed an anxiety concerning the contemporary predicament of European humanity in...
New run in Kazakhstan?
On April 26 Kazakhstan will vote to choose the next president, as a way to respond to global economic and regional socio-political crisis. On...
Je Suis(se) HSBC! – The austerity odd or ad?
While the wealthy evade billions in taxes, ordinary citizens continue to bear the burden of budget cuts. Meanwhile, those who resist are punished for...
Are informal coalitions good or bad? The case of IBSA
The twenty-first century is a century in which countries are increasingly seeking equal rights, which involve, for instance, the acknowledgement in their regional spheres...
The Asian Square Dance Part VI: Russia
Russia and the US share the fact that they are both Atlantic and Pacific powers although Russia is essentially a land-based power with the...
Greed is good…but only for cancer
Don’t be bad with 1%, don’t accuse them for having it all and doing nothing to earn it. 99% firmly believes that a greed...
Europe of the human face… with a little help from Greece
Days after the last parliamentary elections, something is eventually moving in Greece. People are hesitant and restrained, do not want to get too excited....
Wealth: Having it all and wanting more
Global wealth is increasingly being concentrated in the hands of a small wealthy elite. These wealthy individuals have generated and sustained their vast riches...
Fair Trade – an alternative made to Aid and Free Trade?
“Trade not Aid”: this used to be the slogan of third-worldist movements in the mid-1960s, an epoch when intellectual figures in the Third World...