No One Buys Books
Elle Griffin at The Elysian: In 2022, Penguin Random House wanted to buy Simon & Schuster. The two publishing houses made up 37 percent and 11 percent of the market
Model Civil Service: The Three Imperatives for Civil Servants
Stand and Deliver: Working in public service is no easy feat. Today’s governments face increasing obstacles to achieving their primary mission: serving the public. Refreshed management approaches and new technologies
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Why I Don’t Invest in Real Estate?
This article refers mainly to developed economies. However, some of the author’s talking points are generic, of academic interest—and for those who are policymakers, home-buyers, and or in real estate
Modi’s India is No Economic Miracle
Talk of Indian Prime Minister Modi’s successful economic stewardship is key to his appeal and legitimacy. Yet the record is far from clear cut Debasish Roy Chowdhury at Time: The
Climate Change Requires Private Sector Financial Firepower
And these efforts cannot be simply country-based. They must be geared to achieve global goals for net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Michael Olabisi of Michigan State University explains how the
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How Did America Become a Credit Card Nation?
Sean H Vanatta at Aeon/Psyche: The American economy has always relied on household borrowing. Since before the founding, the colonies had been ever short of metallic currency. Our 18th-century forebears
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The Israel-India Worker Deal Resembles British Indenture
Michelle Buckley, Paula Chakravartty in Boston Review: In December, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a personal request from his friend and political ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: expedite
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Decarbonization is the Most Critical Response to Climate Change–But is it Enough?
McKinsey research shows that carbon dioxide removal, or CDR, could play a vital role in combating hard-to-abate emissions. These emissions are considered hard to abate because they come from activities
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Sit-ins on Company Dime: Google Fires 28
Liz Wolfe at Reason: Yesterday, Google fired 28 of its workers after employees held sit-ins to protest the company’s contracts with the Israeli government. The employees were part of a
An AI Deal as a Diplomatic Weapon
A relatively small deal — by Microsoft’s standards, anyway — is leading to big geopolitical ripples this morning. The tech giant is investing $1.5 billion in G42, an Emirati artificial
What We Get Wrong About Poverty
Nathan Cheek at Psyche: Imagine this upsetting scenario: two women are both suffering physical abuse from their partners. One woman is relatively affluent, while the other struggles to make ends
Is Techno-Monopoly Inevitable?
William H. Janeway at Project Syndicate: The detective in a typical British crime procedural would say that Mordecai Kurz “has got form.” An emeritus professor at Stanford University, Kurz received his doctorate