The Government has cancelled its review of workers’ rights – what does this mean...
By Pia Sanchez
On 14 January 2021, barely 2 weeks after the UK and the EU signed the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) that covers...
Trump’s Next Target: World Trade Organization
By Dan Steinbock
In the past few months, the Trump White House has started trade wars against its major trade partners, particularly China, and...
Fintech: Current Trends and Potential Future Developments
By Terence Tse, Mark Esposito and Danny Goh
There is no doubt that the pace of change in today’s business is both dramatic and disruptive....
As Russia’s Economy Tanks, Europe Must Join Forces to Increase Sanctions Pressure
The Russian Ruble has now taken the hardest hit against the US dollar in the two years, following its invasion of Ukraine, due to...
China’s Key Cities: From Local Places to Global Players
By Xiangming Chen
China’s geographically uneven growth plays a key role in regional integration by creating more varied and largely beneficial global connections. In this...
Euro Hits Dollar Parity for the First Time in 20 Years
The Euro exchange rate has been falling for months, and has now reached the same level as the US Dollar.
Around a year ago, one...
Pay Secrecy
By Adrian Furnham
Even with today’s rapidly progressing society, there still exists a certain stigma towards the topic of salary or compensation. Employees have taken...
Climate-Induced Terrorism — the New Global Business Risk
By Matt Ince
While countries around the world struggle to meet the manifold challenges posed by climate change, there are those who would use the...
Trade Liberalisation, Comparative Advantage, and Economic Development: A Historical Perspective
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
This article critically analyses the theoretical and empirical basis of trade liberalisation and finds that the arguments of many mainstream...
Venezuela in “Misery” – Lies and Deceit by the Media Open Letter to the...
By Peter Koenig
To the Editor in CHIEF
NYT - 18 May 2019
Venezuela’s Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War in Decades, Economists Say
Subtitle:
Butchers have stopped...
The Structural Changes in a Post-Pandemic Global Finance
By Chan Kung and Wei Hongxu
In many ways, COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the world. Under the presence of increased global trade...
Admiring Your Enemy to Lead Your Company to Victory
By David De Cremer
An often heard comment in the business world is that companies over-appreciate cognitive skills and as a result, their functioning is...
Is this the end of trickle-down economics?
By Graham Vanbergen
The global pandemic has changed everything, highlighting the failures of economic policy that has dominated the Western world for the last 50...
The Problems of Unfree Trade: Various Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
By Binoy Kampmark
How free is the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Covering a region spanning 40 percent of the world’s GDP and 12 signatory states, an argument...
Where Have All the American Banks Gone?
By Robert E. Wright and Richard Sylla
With the evolution of banking over the years, many banks have flourished and declined in America. It has...
Global business travel will not be killed off by coronavirus – new research
By Kieran Michael Conroy, Anthony McDonnell, and Stefan Jooss
Global business travel has largely ground to a halt during the pandemic. Experts have been raising the alarm...
As COVID-19 Goes Global, New Risks Increase
By Dan Steinbock
In addition to the Chinese mainland, the struggle against the new cases and outbreak clusters of the COVID-19 is shifting to countries...
Collective Life Capital: The Lost Ground of the Economy
By John McMurtry
In this analysis, the author definitively explains collective life capital as the missing base of the economy under systemic attack by life-blind...
Closing the Gap: What Will it Take for the UK to be a “Double...
By Christina Palmou
The pandemic has brought into sharper focus the unequal opportunities at work for men and women. Policy, management practices and a structural...
Bitcoin: why a Wave of Huge Companies like Tesla Rushing to Invest could Derail...
By Gavin Brown
After Tesla announced it has invested US$1.5 billion in bitcoin and expects to start accepting the cryptocurrency as a payment for its electric vehicles...
Pilates, Fruit and Amazon’s Zen Booths: Why Workplace Wellbeing Efforts Can Fall Short
By Stephen Bevan
Corporate giant Amazon is taking heat over reports of its WorkingWell initiative, a physical and mental health programme intended to improve employee health...
Winning the Talent War in Emerging Markets: Women are the Answer
By Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid
As global companies try to harness the growth and possibilities of emerging markets, the extraordinary energy, ambition and...
Why Do We Work So Hard?
By Hugh Cunningham
Despite mid-twentieth-century forecasts of ever-increasing leisure time, we have instead seen the growth of a long hours culture. Below, Hugh Cunningham explores...
Trump’s Other Wall
By Jack Rasmus
Trump brags about the ‘wall of money’ now flowing into the US from abroad–from Europe, Asia, emerging market economies–as the global economy...
Spirituality and Business: From a profit maximizing model to a social economic DNA
By Sharda Nandram
Due to globalization several parts of the world are influencing each other, thus leading to the incorporation of Eastern and Western thoughts...
In the Shadow of Taiwan, PH Faces Existential Choices
By Dan Steinbock
The Marcos government does not face a choice between the US or China, amid Taiwan tensions. It faces a choice...
The Bilateral Swap Agreements, Chinese Currency and the Demise of the US Dollar
By Dr. Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
I examine here the role of China’s bilateral swap agreements (BSAs) and the internationalization of its currency Renminbi (RMB). A...
Global Economy 2023: How Governments Could Make the Energy Crisis Worse This Year
By Adi Imsirovic
This is the second instalment in our series on where the global economy is heading in 2023, which started with this article on global...
6 Discussions To Have With Your Employees When Coming Back To Office
By David Kelly
The current COVID-19 situation drastically changed the way we perceive a traditional workplace and remote working. Due to government-imposed restrictions and measurements,...
Financialisation, Neoliberalism and Economic Crises in the Advanced Economies
By Dr Kalim Siddiqui
Financialised capitalism emerged in the advanced economies during the last four decades. It has opened wider avenues to wealth formation and speculation,...
Lessons Had and Lessons Learnt — Leading in Times of the Pandemic
By Patricia Casaburi
CEO of Global Citizen Solutions, Patricia Casaburi, shares her trials and tribulations of leading her team through Portugal’s second lockdown to publish an ebook...
The Rise of the Petroyuan and the Slow Erosion of Dollar Hegemony
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
For seventy years, one of the critical foundations of American power has been the dollar’s standing as the...
Chile: The Capitalist Alternative to Venezuela in Latin America
By Rainer Zitelmann
Chile and Venezuela are the two counter-models in Latin America. Chile embodies the capitalist path, while Venezuela the socialist path. But Chile has...
Strengthening Access to Finance for Women in Asia: A Catalyst for Empowerment
By Alexander Ayertey Odonkor
stonebahis
Providing affordable financial services to women in Asia is an indispensable requirement to the economic empowerment of women in the region. The...
Ahead of the Game or Falling Behind? Canada’s Readiness for a Borderless, Global Workforce
By Sunil Johal
Three years ago, nearly five million Canadians suddenly shifted to working remotely at the outset of the pandemic. While some workers have returned to...
Multinationals don’t approach investing in Africa the same way: the differences matter
By Colin David Reddy and Ralph Hamann
There are growing expectations across the world for companies to show their commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR). This is...
How Businesses Need to Get Creative if They Want to Survive Coronavirus – and...
By Julie C. Thomson
Walk around any town or city this autumn and you will find a range of shuttered businesses next door to others...
Key Workers’ Dedication Takes a Toll on their Families – Here’s What Employers Should...
By Anica Zeyen and Stephanos Anastasiadis
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen many in key roles – such as doctors, nurses, police officers and teachers –...
Eternal Economic Return: The Global Economic Crisis through the Lens of History
By Larry Allen
Looking back at previous waves of economic crisis, economic historian Larry Allen illuminates our global predicament by uncovering the interlocked economic processes...
China Looks West: What Is at Stake in Beijing’s “New Silk Road” Project
Flynt Leverett, Hillary Mann Leverett and Wu Bingbing
Not even two years into what will almost certainly be a ten-year tenure as China’s president, Xi...
Global Economy on the Brink as Davos Crowd Parties On
By Dr. Jack Rasmus
At Davos, Switzerland every year the global capitalist elite gather to party…and to prepare for the year ahead. This year more than...
Is a Cashless Society Realistic? The Rural Challenge to the Post-Pandemic “New Normal”
By Aaron van Klyton and Juan Fernando Tavera-Mesías
Mobile banking and digital payments (“m-payments”) were already core features of government development policies aimed at beefing...
Von der Leyen has violated one of the EU’s founding principles
By Rainer Zitelmann
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has conceded that individual countries could have vaccinated their populations quicker had they acted alone rather than relying on the EU’s collective vaccine purchase and distribution program. She...
Fixing the World Economic Forum
By Shawn Pope
Although the World Economic Forum is a well known target of criticism, being seen by many as a secretive annual confabulation of...
Do We Need To Rethink Employment Law For The Gig Economy?
By Maximilian Yoshioka
Are people who work in the “gig economy” self-employed contractors, or employees of the organisation they “gig” for? In this article, the...
Can Women Fix Capitalism?
By Joanna Barsh
Gender equality at the top of business has stalled, and trust in business is alarmingly low. Putting more women in charge could...
Lesbian Culture Is Being Erased Because Investors Think Only Gay Men (And Straight People)...
By Marcie Bianco
Money is an ideology. It has value because we believe it does. Similarly, consumer confidence–the quintessential barometer for investors–holds incredible sway in...
Is it Wrong to Steal from Large Corporations? A Philosopher Debates the Ethics
By Emma Borg
If you ask someone whether it’s okay to steal, chances are most people would say no. This absolutist approach – stealing is...
Immigration, Food Justice and the Fierce Urgency of Now
By Julian Agyeman, Alison Alkon and Sydney Giacalone
Food justice recognises that one’s experience of the food system is determined by and is inseparable from...
The Political Economy of Industrial Policy
By Kalim Siddiqui
I. Introduction
This article aims to discuss industrial policy by focusing on a number of theoretical issues, in particular in relation to manufacturing and...
On Economic Inequality
By Harry G. Frankfurt
Economic inequality is one of the most divisive issues of our time. In this article, Harry Frankfurt, one of the most...
Tokyo Olympics: no spectators is bad for business, but hosting could still bring long-term...
By Mike Duigan
Japanese Olympics minister Tamayo Marukawa has confirmed that, due to COVID, no spectators will be allowed to attend Tokyo 2020. This comes after initial announcements in...
Decrypting The Aspiring Indian Low-Income Consumer
By Glyn Atwal, Douglas Bryson and Ambi Parameswaran
In this article, Glyn Atwal, Douglas Bryson and Ambi Parameswaran highlight the common misconceptions held by companies...
Rebuilding Infected Economies: Without Deficits, Debt or Taxes
By Dr Shann Turnbull
European national and local governments possess the power to rebuild their infected economies with self-liquidating “Stamp Scrip” money. This could be achieved...
Inflation: The Supermarket Business Model is too Fragile to Shield Customers from Rising Food...
By Lisa Jack
royalbet
Food prices, like almost everything else, are rising fast. There have recently been warnings of “apocalyptic” costs, and a declaration that the “era...
Agile Anarchy is the Name of the Future
By Guido Stein and Alberto Barrachina
To build agile organizations you must understand human relationships
1. Change> Transform Your Approach to Transformation
This technical note explores some...
Ethereum: what is it and why has the price gone parabolic?
By Paul J Ennis and Donncha Kavanagh
The price of the world’s second largest cryptocurrency, ether, hit a new all-time high of US$1,440 (£1,050) on January 19....
“Empowering Women Makes Economic Sense”
Interview with James Zhan
Foreign investment holds enormous potential for women’s empowerment through the creation of formal jobs and business linkages – and this is...
Corporate Scandals – Cauldrons of Spilt Trust
By Douglas Bryson & Glyn Atwal
Trust is a big word. In this article, the authors elaborate on the elements and issues around corporate scandals,...
Guilt, Shame, Dissatisfaction: Workers and Customers on the Gig Economy (and how to make...
By David Bissell
The gig economy is in trouble. Rideshare drivers are cancelling in droves. Wait times for food delivery are ballooning out and driver shortages are leading...
Argentina’s Brexit: Why New President Milei Is Threatening to Pull Out of South America’s...
By Diego Acosta and Leiza Brumat
Javier Milei, who was elected as Argentina’s new president on November 19, has promised to withdraw from the South American “common...
Women in Boardrooms: After Ten Years of Equality Drives, It’s Time for Quotas
By Keith Cuthbertson
The push to more fairly represent women in UK boardrooms is making good progress, according to the final report of the independent Hampton-Alexander review....
Food Prices Are Rising but Farmers’ Profits Are Still Small – Here’s Why
By Lisa Jack
More than 60 food industry representatives came together at a recent Downing Street summit to discuss the UK food crisis. It was billed as...
The Rise of the Corporatocracy
By Graham Vanbergen
Transnational corporations are wreaking havoc on financial, economic, social and ecological systems in a creeping colonisation of public life where just 147...
America’s Shale Revolution and the Dangerous Myth of Energy Independence
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
Proponents of energy independence enshrine America’s so-called “shale revolution” as a geopolitical game changer, enabling the United States...
Are We on the Verge of Becoming Western Money Slaves?
By Peter Koenig
Masked by economic “innovations”, the New World Order continues work its way to total world manipulation. In this article, Peter Koenig elaborates...
Are Inflation Alarm Bells Ringing True?
By Graham Vanbergen
There are numerous reports in the US, EU and UK about the spectre of rising inflation, with world renowned economists disagreeing...
It’s Our Economy Too: Gender Equality Is Not A Luxury To Be Abandoned In...
By Charlotte O’Brien
In spite of high profile commitments, progress on gender equality has stalled in the EU. Dr Charlotte O’Brien argues that male-dominated institutions...
Alternative Proteins Are Here – The Next 30 Years Could Be Crucial for NZ’s...
By Christopher Rosin and Hugh Campbell
The history of farming is seeded with technological “big bang” moments that have changed the trajectory of whole industries...
Google Turns 25: The Search Engine Revolutionised How We Access Information, but Will It...
By Mark Sanderson, Julian Thomas, Kieran Hegarty, and Lisa M. Given
Today marks an important milestone in the history of the internet: Google’s 25th birthday....
Capitalism in Intensive Care
By Graham Vanbergen
As the COVID crisis grips the world economy, Graham Vanbergen concludes that capitalism itself has suffered a near-fatal heart attack and that the...
Empowering the Backbone of America: Small Businesses Driving Economic Resilience and Innovation
By Martin Rowinski
This article explores the transformative power of small businesses in the American economy. It highlights their role as catalysts of innovation, driving...
The Ongoing Lebanese Financial Crisis: Can There be Justice for Private Foreign Banking Customers?
By Kiran Nasir Gore and Charles H. Camp
In October 2019, Lebanon’s domestic financial crisis finally started to make international headlines. Mass protests erupted with a focus on...
How International Trade can Unlock the Potential of the Cultural Economy in Developing Countries
By Jen Snowball
There is growing interest in the creative economy in emerging markets in terms of its impact on employment and economic growth, as...
Navigating a New Digital Era Means Changing the World Economic Order
By Shamel Azmeh
COVID-19 has accelerated the growth in the digital economy through a dramatic increase in working from home, online shopping, digital entertainment, online...
2019 Scorecard: The Trump Effect on Future International Business Disputes
By Charles H. Camp and Kiran Nasir Gore
President Trump is now three-fourths through his initial term as U.S. President. Between the U.S. House of...
Settler Colonialism and the Case of Palestine: A Reflexion on Historical Trauma and the...
By Marcelina Horrillo Husillos
“For over 55 years, the Israeli military occupation has prevented the realisation of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people,...
Global Capitalism: Crisis of Humanity and the Specter of 21st Century Fascism
By William I. Robinson
World capitalism is experiencing the worst crisis in its 500 year history. Global capitalism is a qualitatively new stage in the...
Global Population Hits 8 Billion, but Per-Capita Consumption Is Still the Main Problem
By Lorenzo Fioramonti, Ida Kubiszewski, Paul Sutton, Robert Costanza
The world population has just hit a new record: 8 billion. As is often the case, there...
Usury in the 21st Century
By Richard Westra
Neoliberal deregulation commencing in the closing decades of the 20th century put into play a global financial system which operates as a...
Chancellor to Back Calls to Make Loan Rates Fairer in the UK in Response...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced his backing of calls from MoneySavingExpert Founder Martin Lewis to make credit card and loan rates fairer in the...
GLOOM vs. BLOOM OF THE FUTURE OF WORK: Can We Chart A Positive Roadmap?
By Mario Raich, Simon Dolan, Dave Ulrich, and Claudio Cisullo
As the digital era is continuously in its process to ripen, discussions of destructive unforeseen...
Chips Everywhere and with Everything
By Elizabeth Stephens
Until recently, Taiwan’s central position in the global supply chain of advanced semiconductors was not seen as an issue. But today, in...
How Meth Became an Epidemic in America, and What’s Happening Now that it’s Faded...
By William Garriott
Rural America has long suffered from an epidemic of methamphetamine use, which accounts for thousands of drug overdoses and deaths every year.
The rural news...
Most Notable Events in the History of the Stock Market
The stock market is often times associated with the 20th century, especially the late 20th century. When speaking about the 1980s, often times, we...
Why Fixing the Planet is also about Seizing Business Opportunities
By Jean-Marc Ollagnier, Sybille Berjoan, Dr Jacques Bughin and Yuhui Xiong
Companies’ efforts to become more sustainable can often be driven by regulation or government...
Trump’s Feeble Phase 1 China-US Trade Deal
By Dr. Jack Rasmus
With the announcement today, January 16, 2020 of the signing of the US-China Phase 1 ‘mini’ trade deal, and the US...
Zombie Politics
By Alexander Cohen and Chase Pielak
Zombies mirror deep seated cultural fears of lack of control, lawlessness, and powerlessness. In the modern world, they are a...
The Coronavirus: Business Risks, Liabilities, and Force Majeure in the Face of a Global...
By Kiran Nasir Gore and Charles H. Camp
On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organisation declared the new coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a Public Health...
Happiness Is A Place Between Too Little And Too Much
By Danny Dorling and Annika Koljonen
School meals are never termed “free” in Finland; they are simply called “lunch”. Alongside Sweden; Finland is one of...
Financial Oligarchy vs. Feudal Aristocracy
By Ismael Hossein-zadeh and Anthony A. Gabb
In this article the authors explore how modern capitalism mirrors the feudal system of centuries ago where today,...
Identity Politics: Diversion from the Growing Economic Crisis?
By Ghada Chehade
Despite the reality of ever-increasing economic despair – including, and perhaps especially, for minorities – no one is willing to talk about class...
Hong Kong and the Audacity of the United States
By Peter Koenig
People often ask and hint at the similarities between the Hong Kong protests and the French Yellow Vests. The former started on...
Pandemic Debt and the Battle over MMT
By Graham Vanbergen
Some governments around the world are making a strategic economic gamble to solve the problem of managing unsustainable debt. In a world...
NHS Anticipates Most Disruptive Strike To Date
Junior doctors are beginning a four-day strike across the UK that will lead to approximately 350,000 canceled appointments. This comes as part of an...
The Demise of Global Britain
By Graham Vanbergen
The almost universal collapse of British foreign policy could not have been timed any more accurately than right now – a time...
Covid 19 & the Forgotten Working Class
By Jack Rasmus
We hear a lot these days about providing benefits and income for the tens of millions of workers who are being laid off,...
The Trend of History is Bigger than the Business Cycle
By Philip Auerswald
In March, 2009, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman posted to his blog a chart of US industrial production in 1929 and 1930 (the...