Rhubarb, rhubarb: the G-20’s plan to save the world

George Friedman | 19 November 2008 | comment 2

Meetings, and more meetings: the sense of urgency is gone.

A weakened economy needs strengthened humanities

John Armstrong | 12 November 2008 | comment 7

Economic freedom has turned toxic because we lack the cultural maturity that the humanities used to provide.

Global credit crisis: is greed the culprit?

John Robertson | 05 November 2008 | comment 14

Focusing exclusively on greed as the culprit in the global credit crisis is a distraction from more complex sources of instability.

Has the time come to dump free markets?

Oskari Juurikkala | 30 October 2008 | comment 3

It's tempting to blame the current financial crisis on the free market economy. But it's wrong. 

States, economies and markets: redefining the rules

George Friedman | 14 October 2008 | comment 1

The finance ministers of the big economies have decided to make the pig fly. But there remains the small matter of how to build a flying pig.

Is capitalism dead or just flat-lining?

Alistair Nicholas | 11 October 2008 | comment 21

The world financial crisis shows that a system built on greed cannot work. 

All boxed in

Joanna Bogle | 23 September 2008 | comment 5

It's in the nature of social engineers to want to force us all into their own ideological box.

Quake of the century

Oskari Juurikkala | 19 September 2008 | comment 3

Every crisis is a call to conversion. Even this week’s financial crisis.

Getting better all the time

Louise Staley | 01 September 2008 | comment 6

Where is the evidence that the planet is getting poorer, more polluted and hungrier

Dispelling Beijing’s haze

Brian Lilley | 26 August 2008 | comment 2

China's pollution is generated by the world's demand for its cheap manufactured goods.

Family footprints

Michelle Martin | 24 July 2008 | comment 5

Economy and character building ensures that a family of 12 keeps its carbon output modest.

The empty European village

Jennifer Roback Morse | 06 June 2008 | comment 24

Do countries with sub-replacement fertility need more government support, or less?

Collapsed schools: a preventable tragedy

Carolyn Moynihan | 31 May 2008 | comment 3

Authorities who allow the building of death-trap schools deserve the political lynching that’s coming to them.

Upstart nation provides workers for the world

Rosa Linda G. Valenzona | 13 May 2008 | comment 8

By insisting on its own demographic path the Philippines has an economic strength that much of the world now lacks.

Happiness is not a lottery win

Alejo Sison | 04 April 2008 | comment 7

Money has much less to do with happiness than we commonly assume.

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