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Studying China can be contentious. I have been in China study seminars that were as confrontational as sessions of U.S. Congress. A primary reason for the contentiousness is that people study China from different perspectives. Here are two major perspectives: the China-centric and the other-country-centric perspectives. The China-Centric Perspective This perspective emerged in the late […]
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At first glance, the economy of a city, a country, and the entire world, seems to be something too complicated to understand, and even more so to predict. The purchase of a pair of sneakers in a sports store in San Antonio triggers a series of processes that begin with a stock replacement order at […]
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The book pulls together the key elements and issues about the transition to low carbon, climate-adapted economy in one volume. ‘Transitioning to a Prosperous, Resilient and Carbon-Free Economy: A Guide for Decision-Makers’ arrives at a decisive moment for the international efforts to tackle the climate crisis – in the wake of the pivotal International energy […]
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Often, we perceive economics as highly objective and functional science or system that is closely associated with material prosperity, economic development or progress, and consumption and transfer of wealth. We usually perceive economic science as being similar in nature to physics or biology, and given the modern division of sciences, such a view would not […]
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Q: What led you to start thinking about how software or robots might get legal personhood? A: It was two things, really. On one side, I started noticing that significant activities within existing organizations had become entirely automated but still had legal effects. For example, I have a colleague who has no idea how much […]
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New research on how management practitioners come to use management knowledge in the different relevant contexts of their working lives permits us to better understand the impact of major crises, such as COVID-19, on the broader flow of management knowledge. Exploring these implications is of particular importance given that management knowledge – and management ideas […]
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Researching the book Economics of Visual Art, I came across a drawing in the Tate Archives. It is a “concept sketch” for Tate Modern. It was drawn in 1991 — a full nine years before the building opened, and still a few years before Bankside Power Station was chosen as the site. The drawing was […]
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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 and Albert Hirschman—but with most attention being paid to Adam Smith and Karl Polanyi.
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