Tag: Project-Syndicate

Planning the Route to Net Zero (Richard Mattison, Project-Syndicate)

The travel details of the huge number of world leaders, company CEOs, and investors who made their way to Glasgow for the latest United...

Accounting for Climate Change (Lucrezia Reichlin, Project-Syndicate)

This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow has brought a marked shift in focus from the responsibilities of governments to the...

Modi’s Anti-Muslim Jihad (Shashi Tharoor, Project-Syndicate)

After India’s recent defeat by Pakistan at the T20 World Cup cricket tournament, Indian bowler Mohammed Shami confronted vicious trolling on social media. It was the...

The Choking of the Global Minotaur (James K. Glabraith, Project-Syndicate)

A supply chain is like a Rorschach Test: each economic analyst sees in it a pattern reflecting his or her own preconceptions. This may...

How Melbourne Rescheduled its Future (Carlo Ratti, Project-Syndicate)

Melbourne is not the most distinctive of Australia’s cities. It does not have Sydney’s sandy beaches or Brisbane’s rugged, “Crocodile Dundee” appeal. Lying on...

The Resistible Rise of US-China Conflict (Dani Rodrik, Project-Syndicate)

US President Joe Biden’s economic and foreign policies may represent a sharp departure from those of his predecessor, Donald Trump. But when it comes...

Will France Derail West Africa’s Common Currency? (Simplice A. Asongu, Project-Syndicate)

An unprecedented Africa-France summit took place at the beginning of October in Montpellier, France. For the first time since these summits began in 1973, no African...

Why Won’t Eastern Europeans Get Vaccinated? (Kristen Ghodsee, Mitchell A. Orenstein, Project-Syndicate)

In recent weeks, as Europe has again become the global epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, the surge in coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths has highlighted the...

Why All the Inflation Worries? (J. Bradford Delong, Project-Syndicate)

In the past three years, technological advances have provided about one percentage point of warranted US real wage growth each year – admittedly, only...

The Economy that Planetary Health Requires (Renzo Guinto, Project-Syndicate)

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, analysts and pundits spun visions of how the crisis would reshape the global economy. Many heralded the opportunity...

The Democrats’ Debacle (Elizabeth Drew, Project-Syndicate)

Perhaps the Democratic Party’s downhill slide can be arrested by President Joe Biden and his top congressional allies. But their job is daunting. If...

Facebook’s Foreign Disasters (Eric Posner, Project-Syndicate)

“The ugly American,” the title of a novel published in 1958 by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer, entered the language to refer to boorish American officials...

Germany’s Chinese Kowtow (Melvyn B. Krauss, Project-Syndicate)

The Greens and the Free Democratic Party, the kingmakers of Germany’s prospective three-party coalition government, favor confronting China over its human-rights abuses in Xinjiang...

Virtual Health for All (Ann Aerts, Project-Syndicate)

The COVID-19 pandemic has sharply accelerated the use of digital technologies in the health sector. For many who could no longer obtain in-person care,...

What Europe’s Energy Crunch Reveals (Daniel Gros, Project-Syndicate)

This month represents an important milestone in the fight against global warming – and not only because of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) currently...

Why Are Supply Chains Blocked? (Michael Spence, Project-Syndicate)

Supply-chain disruptions are severely hampering the global economic recovery. It is a strange situation in many ways. The types of products and services affected...