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 William Boyd on Brexit : « What I am currently experiencing is something close to shame » History will not be kind to David Cameron, the ex-prime-minister, now nowhere to […]
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Don’t miss Scottish author William Boyd’s scathing remorse on the futility of Brexit in Le Monde. Some highlights below. The Brexit problem, however, is an old one and goes back many decades. It’s to do with a particular cast of mind, a pervasive fantasy of England and the English (rather than Britain and the […]
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The “Knowledge Economy” is a term we hear constantly, but it’s interesting that so little actual economics work has been done to date in this field. One person who is focused on this topic is Cesar Hidalgo who leads MIT’s Collective Learning Group. He recently wrote a blog post for Scientific American (The Rise of Knowledge Economics), […]
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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 Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class Even a columnist for The Economist, an organ of the British elite, now professes dismay over “Oxford chums” who coast […]
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. -CA World & Politics Nicolás Maduro digs in for another six-year term But the main threat to Mr Maduro comes from “inside chavismo”, says Mr León. Until now, loot from oil production, […]
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It’s not often that I come across great workspace insights in a conservative political journal, but that’s exactly what happened when I read Scott Beauchamp’s outstanding analysis of workspace history in the latest issue of American Affairs. Beauchamp’s well-written piece is an attempt to connect historical developments in workspace design with the changing conceptions of capitalism, and […]
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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 Highlighted in Yellow The historian Anaïs Albert has shown that in the “Belle Époque” (1871–1914), the women of the popular classes were pivotal in the mobilization against high […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles from the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. -CA World & Politics ‘Chaos is complete’: what the European papers say about Brexit In Spain, El País editorial writer Iñaki Gabilondo said Britain was now “in the quagmire” after a referendum “that has […]
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In the last few years, I’ve found myself having the same conversation with several newly exited c-level executives. These very accomplished people have had successful careers and, thinking about post c-suite life, they are confident that they can move into a management consulting role, either in their own company, or at a tier-one advisory firm. […]
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Each week, I share some of the most interesting articles from the past seven days. Here is this week’s selection. -CA World & Politics The Rise of Islamic Soft Power Although Islam has always been present in the region’s politics, its importance has grown in recent years—thanks not only to the convulsions of the […]
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