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A US Retreat from TPP: What Does Services Trade Tell Us?
During last weekend’s summit meeting of Asia-Pacific leaders in Peru, President Obama made the case that failure to sign on to TPP would “undermine our position across the region”. It would...
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Brexit – The Trade Agenda Moves One Step Further
In a previous blog I described the UK trade agenda, the four principal areas where the UK will be losing trade access or trade rights and privileges as a result of Brexit. I presume that the...
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Interview with Johan Norberg, author of ‘Progress – Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future’
ECIPE: In the current age of misery there is this feeling that the world is getting darker and that the sky is about to fall down. You chronicle and detail a radically different view. What is the...
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Brexit – the Trade Agenda: or Rights and Privileges that Will Be Lost and Will Have to Be Replaced*
This note is written on the basis that exit from the EU entails some automatic loss of privileges, which can then be renegotiated with trade partners, either rapidly or in some cases over time. But...
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The Impact of Globalisation on South Korea’s Nuclear Industry and its Strategic Choices
South Korea’s nuclear industry has emerged in recent years to become a significant player in what is a competitive market. Its biggest achievement so far has been the $20 billion contract to...
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EU Services Part I
The issue of immigration is currently a hot debated topic and is often put in connection with globalisation and the current political backlash. Both are actually two sides of the same coin. If goods...
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The Privacy Shield in 3 Tweets
It took a great deal of negotiation efforts, but the European Commission implementing decision on the adequacy of the protection provided by the EU-US Privacy Shield is finally out. A step the...
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Q&A with Fredrik Erixon and Björn Weigel, authors of The Innovation Illusion – How so Little is Created by so Many Working so Hard (Yale University Press)
Question: Why is there an innovation illusion? Answer: People are almost daily fed with horror stories about how robots, artificial intelligence, or smart machines are going to destroy jobs and make...
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Science, the State and the City – An interview with Geoffrey Owen and Michael Hopkins about biotech sector in Europe
Sir Geoffrey Owen is a business historian, former Editor of the Financial Times, and Senior Fellow at the London School Economics, Michael Hopkins is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Research for...
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Thoughts on the Brexit Referendum
The United Kingdom has voted to leave the EU. It is a momentous decision. No one knows the scale of the consequences that will follow a UK departure from the EU – and the only thing we can say with...