Economic competitiveness numbers cause a stir

Risk vs uncertainty. The battle was at the core of NYU professor and renowned anthropologist Arjun Appadurai’s keynote speech at the Human Economy conference. Finance, he argued, was establishing itself as a discipline separate from economics largely due to shedding off the noti...more

Do many units of power, like elites, powerful individuals, but also states, punch above their weight? This was a question raised at a seminar I gave about ‘defensive power’ last week at the University of Cape Town. Elites, for example, often loudly object changes that may jeopar...more