The world is at war. The enemy is resilient, ruthless, and unpredictable, with no regard for race, nationality, ideology, or wealth. Already, it has killed more than 26,000 people and infected over 56 ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-30
When pandemics strike, world leaders and health responders must adapt quickly to the looming threat. Often the last factor they consider – if it makes their to-do lists at all – is gender. As advocate ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-30
The shock to the global economy from COVID-19 has been both faster and more severe than the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) and even the Great Depression. In those two previous episodes, stock mark ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-25
As the coronavirus pandemic shuts down the world’s economies, stock markets plummet, and unemployment rises, policymakers will be forced to figure out how to contain the outbreak while preventing fina ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-24
The COVID-19 coronavirus is disrupting practically every aspect of life all over the world. Naturally, governments are working to protect their own populations first, including by closing their border ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-20
The coronavirus pandemic has triggered a combined negative supply and demand shock of unprecedented intensity. Both are having a significant impact on the production of goods and services, and because ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-19
With markets already in turmoil, a dollar credit crunch now threatens the world economy. Companies dependent on international trade have seen their earnings collapse, and many will be unable to servic ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-19
Throughout history, crisis and human progress have often gone hand in hand. While the growing Covid-19 epidemic could strengthen nationalism and isolationism and accelerate the retreat from globalizat ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-09
It is too soon to predict the long-run arc of the coronavirus outbreak. But it is not too soon to recognize that the next global recession could be around the corner – and that it may look a lot diffe ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-03
The outbreak of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, that began in Wuhan, China, may well turn into a global pandemic. Nearly 50 countries have confirmed cases of the virus, with the precise nature of the t ...More
EJ Insight2020-03-02
The emergence of Covid-19, a new coronavirus, is a tragic public-health emergency. The disease, one hopes, will be brought under control quickly, but the International Monetary Fund is already warning ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-28
Last October, the 2019 Global Health Security Report included a stark warning: “National health security is fundamentally weak around the world. No country is fully prepared for epidemics or pandemics ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-27
At the start of this year, things seemed to be looking up for the global economy. True, growth had slowed a bit in 2019: from 2.9 percent to 2.3 percent in the United States, and from 3.6 percent to 2 ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-25
South Korea is all the rage these days. Earlier this month, Parasite, from the South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho, won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Having read the reviews and seen the film a ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-21
In my 2010 book, Crisis Economics, I defined financial crises not as the “black swan” events that Nassim Nicholas Taleb described in his eponymous bestseller, but as “white swans.” According to Taleb, ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-18
One of the hallmarks of an effective foreign policy is that it runs in the background, neither loud nor especially visible. Governments must urgently adopt such an approach to stem the growing global ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-17
事關美國總統特朗普應否被趕下台的嚴重政治衝突，彰顯出美國憲法存在令人警惕的弱點。200多年來，美國人都依靠這部 ...全文
Sinn Féin’s success in Ireland’s Feb. 8 general election, where it headed the poll, has come as a shock, owing to the party’s historic ties to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and that organization’s a ...More
EJ Insight2020-02-12
