The Case for Consumption Equality

NEW YORK – Discussions about economic development often focus on how to increase income equality. More recently, however, thoughtful observers...

Who Pays for the Green Deal?

MUNICH – Under President Ursula von der Leyen, the new European Commission has big plans to address climate change. With a €1 trillion ($1.1...

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Finding Europe’s Way in the World

BERLIN – The European Union, and particularly Germany, have yet to rise to the challenge posed by the United States’ retreat from global...

Why AI Will Not Abolish Work

VIENNA – The diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) across the economy has raised the possibility – and for many, the fear – that machines...

A Data Revolution for All

NEW YORK – Science has revolutionized medicine and agriculture over the last 100 years, particularly for the poorest of the poor. Achievements...

Walking the Talk of Stakeholder Capitalism

DAVOS – The role of corporate boards has never been more important, nor subject to as much scrutiny, as it is today. The technological,...

The Best Tool to Fight Climate Change

AMSTERDAM – Although many supporters of US President Donald Trump seemingly believe that global warming is a hoax, almost everyone else agrees...

The Terrorism Paradox

LONDON – There was, all too predictably, no shortage of political profiteering in the wake of November’s London Bridge terror attack, in which...

Trump’s Backward March on Trade

WASHINGTON, DC – Following America’s disastrous 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the subsequent international trade war, and eventually World War II,...

Putin’s Meaningless Coup

PARIS – Vladimir Putin may be setting himself up to remain Russia’s leader well beyond the end of his presidency, to no one’s surprise. In his...

The New Davos Challenge

DAVOS – The World Economic Forum’s annual flagship meeting this year will focus on how to build a more cohesive and sustainable world. As always,...

Work in the Twenty-First Century

Closing the SDG Gap

LAGOS – As global business and political leaders gather in Davos for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting, they should ask themselves one...

Hostages of History

NEW DELHI – During the recent flare-up between the United States and Iran, US President Donald Trump tweeted that he was prepared to bomb “52...

The Truth About the Trump Economy

NEW YORK – As the world’s business elites trek to Davos for their annual gathering, people should be asking a simple question: Have they...