Economics is at the start of a revolution that is traceable to an unexpected source: medical schools and their research facilities. Neuroscience – the science of how the brain, that physical organ inside one’s head, really works – is beginning to ch...

The Greek government needs to escape from an otherwise impossible situation. It has an unmanageable level of government debt (150 percent of GDP, rising this year by 10 percentage points), a collapsing economy (with GDP down by more than seven percent thi...

The United States is going through difficult times. Its post-2008 recovery has slowed, and some observers fear that Europe’s financial problems could tip the American and world economy into a second recession. American politics, moreover, remains gri...

Perhaps for the first time in modern history, the future of the global economy lies in the hands of poor countries. The United States and Europe struggle on as wounded giants, casualties of their financial excesses and political paralysis. They seem conde...

The outlook for the global economy in 2011 is, partly, for a persistence of the trends established in 2010. These are: an anaemic, below-trend, U-shaped recovery in advanced economies, as firms and households continue to repair their balance sheets; a str...

Economists like to talk about thresholds that, if crossed, spell trouble. Usually there is an element of truth in what they say. But the public often overreacts to such talk. Consider, for example, the debt-to-GDP ratio, much in the news nowadays in Eu...

Big economic crises often cause iconic companies to falter. Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is a model of the modern global enterprise. A particularly dynamic and innovative business model came from outside and took over central aspects of British and...

“Share the new world” simply states the new energetic slogan from Brazilian software solutions developer TOTVS. It is with this novel concept that TOTVS has launched its new brand and institutional campaign in a bold move to spread brand awareness thr...

People talk as if we can only use energy and materials one way: we take fossil fuels from the ground, use them up, and when they are gone our world will end. We mine metals and other essential substances, and when they are finished, so are we.Science says...

The G8 recently asked the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which was created to support the post-communist transitions to democracy and market economies in central and eastern Europe, to put its experience to use in Egypt. But which lesso...