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The Rise of Anti-Economics: How the Western Public Discourse is Infused by the Opposite of Basic Economics
My thesis in this essay is that we now live in an era of anti-economics. Just like antimatter is the opposite of ordinary matter, the Western public policy discourse now seems permeated by...
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The shared pursuit of a values-based Globalisation
Western liberal globalisation needs a reboot. Over the past years, the West and its institutions have distanced themselves from the outside world, while becoming entangled in their own economic...
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On Ukraine: Why the crisis may actually intensify new globalisation rather than scale it back
In response to sanctions levied by the US after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia has effectively halted the supply of key rocket engines to the US. Since the 1990s, Russia has supplied 122...
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Filling the void: Can global private leaders replace government?
Last year, NASA launched its first human space mission from US soil since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011. For almost a decade, US astronauts had been dependent on Russian Soyuz...
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Re-Globalisation
Globalisation is in trouble. Ever since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008, global trade has been unable to return to its preceding upward trend. Rising protectionism, falling efficiency gains...
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Biden’s win creates a new global trade challenge – delivering results
President Biden will enter the White House to considerable goodwill from an international community mostly relieved that they don’t have to put up with another four years of President Trump. The...