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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. Inclusion does not mean endorsement. -CA World & Politics Can Putin Fix Russia’s Sputtering Economy? The only other option for the Kremlin is to improve the business climate in ways that attract […]
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The latest issue of Harvard Business Review has a strong piece by Mihnea Moldoveanu (Professor, Rotman School of Management) and Das Narayandas (Professor, Harvard Business School) on the future of leadership education. Their thorough analysis lays out the major forces driving a profound transformation in the way leadership (and indeed many other subjects) is taught in the […]
Read moreEach week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. Inclusion does not mean endorsement. -CA World & Politics Worryingly Troubled Organisation: why the WTO is in serious peril The grim prospects of what trading with the EU on WTO terms alone […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. Inclusion does not mean endorsement. -CA World & Politics Will Maduro’s Supporters Abandon Him? Most other officials disagreed with this assessment and blamed the opposition for its own failures. Not even the […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. Inclusion does not mean endorsement. -CA World & Politics Swedbank Dirty Money Plot Thickens After CEO Analyst Call The development comes as a $230 billion scandal engulfing Danske continues to spread, with […]
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Last year, I wrote a post in which I noted some of the early observations that Millennials were increasingly tuning into socialist rhetoric and ideas. The blame for this phenomenon lies squarely with modern capitalism, I noted, and we should expect this trend to continue: “capitalists, and I count myself among them, need to get […]
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The FT has an amazing piece by Yuan Yang on the China’s crackdown on its young Marxists, who are deeply unhappy with the Communist-in-name-only capitalist nation into which they were born. Some highlights: After a series of kidnappings and arrests both on and off China’s most prestigious campuses, a total of 42 people remain in detention, including […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. -Carlos World & Politics Four decades after its revolution, Iran is still stuck in the past Yet the regime acts as if the revolution were only yesterday. The judiciary recently banned walking […]
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“The fortunate man is seldom satisfied with the fact of being fortunate. Beyond this, he needs to know that he has a right to his good fortune. He wants to be convinced that he ‘deserves’ it, and above all, that he deserves it in comparison with others … good fortune thus wants to be legitimate […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles I’ve come across in the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. -CA World & Politics The Italian Government’s Latest Sport? Bashing France A popular myth has resurfaced on Twitter in these fractious daysabout how both haute cuisine and humble utensils were introduced to […]
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