Tag: global economy

Imagining an economy based in environmental reality

This is the story of how a handfull of mega-rich ended up hoarding most of the world’s wealth.

When Russia attacked Ukraine with sophicated malware in 2017, it caused over $10 billion dollars worth of damage and revealed the whole world’s vulnerabilities.

The decline of national political authority requires a new transnational political system. First we have to stop denying the problem.

Estonia’s ultimate goal in digitizing its society has less to do with automation than it does with embracing the transient nature of labor in the European marketplace.

On Monocle’s tenth anniversary, one writer analyzes the magazine’s vision, business model, and what place this globalist outlet has in an age of increasing nationalism.

The container’s efficiency has proven to be an irresistible economic force. Last year the world’s container ports moved 560 million 20-foot containers—nearly 1.5 billion tons of cargo altogether. Though commodities like petroleum, steel ore, and coal still move in specially designed bulk cargo ships, more than 90 percent of the rest—everything from clothes to cars […]