Category: Business & Economics

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Business & Economics

COVID-19: An Accelerator for Sustainable and Smart Urban Transitions?

A Turning Point for Sustainable and Smart Urban Transitions? The COVID-19 pandemic has caused widespread and tragic destruction in terms of human lives, and, through efforts to…

July 14, 2021

Business & Economics

Building National Supply Chain Resilience

In May 2021, a cyberattack shut down the operations of a major gas pipeline along the East Coast of the United States. A month earlier, a combination of weather and…

July 11, 2021

Business & Economics

Reorienting Policies for Aging Societies: Policies of Integrating Healthcare and Elderly Care in the United States and China

In the United States, the nation’s decision makers have been confronting an enormous range of specific challenges for the aging society. Attempts or proposals to reform the…

July 8, 2021

Business & Economics

Rethinking China’s Strategy of Technological Independence

One of the themes that stand out in China’s 14th Five-year Plan for national economic and social development is the commitment to strengthening technological self-sufficiency.…

June 22, 2021

Business & Economics

The Trials and Tribulations of Big Tech in the US-China Relationship

September 20, 2020, was the deadline for transactions by Tencent’s WeChat and ByteDance’s TikTok to cease operations within the United States set by the Trump administration.…

May 20, 2021

Business & Economics

Degrowth: Less Resource Use for More Wellbeing and Resilience

Broad consensus that the survival of human societies depends on reducing harmful environmental impacts would suggest widespread movement toward degrowth objectives, yet…

May 9, 2021

Business & Economics

Why Cities No Longer Clamor to Host the Olympic Games

On September 13, 2017, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) did the unthinkable. It awarded the 2028 Summer Games to Los Angeles without even making a call for other, …

April 19, 2021

Business & Economics

When “Pariahs” Go Green: Energy Transitions in the Middle East and the Biden Administration

Oil Demand Shocks and US Foreign Policy US foreign policymaking in the Middle East tends to look at itself in the rear-view mirror. Reliable oil supplies against American…

April 14, 2021

Business & Economics

Rethinking Global Vaccine Inequality: Lessons from Game Theory

The distribution gap for COVID-19 vaccines between wealthy and poor countries is widening. High-income countries, which account for fourteen percent of the global population,…

April 10, 2021

Business & Economics

Argentina’s New Media Regulations Create Jitters over Information Control

 Stop the Presses A price freeze for telephone, cable, and Internet services in Argentina has raised concerns that the new government is increasing control over communications…

January 19, 2021