Measuring Inequality | Angus Deaton & Anne Case
When it comes to tackling the challenges of inequality, are we asking the right questions? Or, for that matter, measuring the right indicators? Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in economics in ...
12 Feb 201929min
What’s Wrong with Davos? | Anand Giridharadas
For the past several decades, world leaders, CEOs, tech titans, billionaires, philanthropists, and celebrities have descended upon Davos, Switzerland with the goal of “improving the state of the world...
29 Jan 201934min
Xiao Qiang on Circumventing the Great Firewall
The Chinese authorities' control of citizens' online activity is intensifying under President Xi Jinping. But for Xiao Qiang, an expert on Chinese censorship at the University of California, Berkeley,...
15 Jan 201924min
The World After Trump
The US-led international order is fraying under the leadership of Donald Trump. But as Mira Rapp-Hooper and Rebecca Friedman Lissner explain, rather than assigning blame, policymakers should focus on ...
1 Jan 201929min
Debating the Great Disruption
Growing inequality, accelerating globalization, and new technologies are contributing to a populist backlash that is upending the economic, political, and diplomatic norms of the last seven decades. I...
18 Dec 201835min
Elizabeth Radin on the Future of Global-Health Coordination
For global-health professionals, the successful war on HIV/AIDS is a model to emulate when targeting other hard-to-contain pandemics. But as Columbia University’s Elizabeth Radin notes, the biggest ob...
4 Dec 201824min
Diane Coyle on Measuring, and Managing, More Sustainable Growth
For more than two generations, economic orthodoxy has held that governments that invest and regulate the least govern best. But Diane Coyle, Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, ...
20 Nov 201825min
James Leibold Unpacks China's War on the Uighurs
In China’s far West, Muslim Uighurs are under attack in a wave of official repression occurring on a scale not seen since the Cultural Revolution. For James Leibold, an expert in China’s ethnic polici...
6 Nov 201825min
