Tag: Global economy
The coronavirus will delay agricultural export surges promised in trade deal...
Wendong Zhang, Iowa State University and Tao Xiong, Huazhong Agricultural University
The novel coronavirus has shocked the world’s economies.
The virus has spread to more than...
Why the Fed has no choice but to keep cutting interest...
Andreas Kern, Georgetown University
The U.S. Federal Reserve is stuck between an apparently booming economy and a financial crisis that might be right around the...
The surprising decline of entrepreneurship and innovation in the West
Wim Naudé, United Nations University
The idea that we are living in an entrepreneurial age, experiencing rapid disruptive technological innovation on a scale amounting to...
Foreign language classes becoming more scarce
Kathleen Stein-Smith, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Of all the skills that a person could have in today’s globalized world, few serve individuals – and the...
Seven charts that show the world is actually becoming a better...
Julius Probst, Lund University
Swedish academic Hans Rosling has identified a worrying trend: not only do many people across advanced economies have no idea that...
Paul Romer and William Nordhaus – why they won the 2018...
Sergey V. Popov, Cardiff University
William Nordhaus and Paul Romer have been awarded the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (colloquially known as the...
Apple’s $1 trillion value doesn’t mean it’s the ‘biggest’ company
Jerry Davis, University of Michigan
On Aug. 2, Apple became the first U.S. public corporation to achieve a US$1 trillion valuation, making it the largest...
Rules-based trade made the world rich. Trump’s policies may make it...
Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Rochester Institute of Technology
Nations sell goods and services to each other because this exchange is generally mutually beneficial.
It’s easy to understand...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
