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24
Sep
2021

Capitalism: What We Can Learn from Economists of...

Our book, What Capitalism Needs, spells out what capitalism needs, drawing on the ideas of great but unduly neglected economists of the past including Friedrich List, Joseph Schumpeter, Maynard Keynes...
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7
May
2021

Naïve or Necessary? Empathy for Outgroups in...

The Covid-19 pandemic represents a profound challenge for all of mankind. A year after the first outbreak was discovered, deaths directly caused by the virus surpassed 2.5 million, and that number was...
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11
Jan
2021

Co-creation: A new recipe for public governance?

For more than 30 years, the public sector has focused on delivering public services more efficiently. Rationalization efforts, productivity campaigns and spending cuts have replaced the postwar expansion...
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7
Jan
2021

Covid 19 and Competent Government

The importance of competent government is perhaps the most important of the many painful lessons that are being learned during the pandemic. The significant variation in death rates across the globe illustrates...
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4
Dec
2020

The Nature of Polities in the Developing World

When faced with phenomena that we find difficult to understand, we often turn to the past. Our understanding of the latter enables us to frame and dissect the events unfolding before us. I am a political...
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11
Nov
2020

An East Asian Model of Immigrant Incorporation?

The global dimensions of migratory flows in the last century have created common dilemmas for liberal democracies throughout the world. As they address market demands for labor, states are faced with...
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16
Sep
2020

Education amidst Covid-19

With the Covid-19 pandemic unfolding across the world, schools, universities, daycare centers and other places of learning went into lockdown. As a response, in many countries education went digital,...
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4
Jun
2020

Trump’s populism and the pandemic game over U.S....

The coming to power of Donald Trump has sparked heated debate between pundits and academics about the consequences of right-wing populism in the United States and beyond. Although there’s little doubt...
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