Adam Tooze: Hard-working hegemon? Why 21st-century America is not like Edwardian Britain.
… on the ironies of neo-Hobsonian analigies. How inequality and international tension interact is an urgent question for the early 21st century – hence the current preoccupation with global imbalances. For many interpreters of our conjuncture, it seems that we are regressing both in terms of inequality and international tension to a configuration alarmingly reminiscent […]
Branko Milanovic: How the “virtues” of neoliberal globalization paved the way to its demise
Cosmopolitanism and competition find their nemesis If one were to define neoliberal globalization as perceived by the Western elites during the forty-year period from the early 1980s to around 2020s, in the most succinct form, one could say that it was driven by two ideas: cosmopolitanism and competition. Cosmopolitanism was the neoliberal idea going back […]
Lessons from three global collective action problems
Kimberly Clausing (PIIE) Working Paper 26-6April 2026 This paper compares three global collective action problems, those involving climate change, international trade, and international taxation. First, each problem is assessed in terms of fundamental elements that stymie global collective action: concentrated interests that deter action in the face of larger yet diffuse benefits, cross-jurisdictional policy spillovers, and […]
The geography of AI firms
Kumar Rishabh and Vatsala Shreeti BIS Working Papers | No 1343 | 20 April 2026 In this paper, we trace the geography and economic characteristics of firms that produce artificial intelligence (AI) products and services. Many economies around the world are evaluating their strategic priorities in AI, yet relatively little is documented about the global distribution of AI production. We […]
Το ομορφότερο γκολ ήταν μια πάσα
Ζαν-Κλωντ Μισεά (2020/2014). Το ομορφότερο γκολ ήταν μια πάσα. (Μετάφραση Νίκος Μ. Μάλλιαρης). Αθήνα: Μάγμα. Σελ. 205. Ταξιδεύοντας από το αριστοκρατικό dribbling game του 19ου αιώνα στο passing game που υιοθέτησε η λαϊκή εργατική παράδοση, κι από το θεαματικό, επιθετικό παιχνίδι των ευρωπαϊκών ποδοσφαιρικών σχολών -που συνιστούσε προϊόν συλλογικής δημιουργίας- μέχρι το «ρεαλιστικό», φιλελεύθερο ποδόσφαιρο […]