The Chinese government’s intervention in the stock market and devaluation of the renminbi this summer provided a loud reminder that economic developments in China affect everyone. Now, China is set to ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-23
China is now experiencing what Japan went through a generation ago: a marked slowdown in economic growth after demands by the United States that it restrict its exports. In the late 1980s and early 19 ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-20
At last week’s annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Lima, Peru, one topic that dominated discussions was the slowdown in emerging-economy growth. Hailed in the wake ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-16
The 19th-century physicist Heinrich Hertz once described his feeling that James Clerk Maxwell’s equations, which depict the fundamentals of electricity and magnetism, “have an independent existence an ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-15
One of the most difficult challenges facing Western governments today is to enable and channel the transformative – and, for individuals and companies, self-empowering – forces of technological innova ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-14
It’s a dollar to a cent that Pope Francis’s visit to the United States will be one of the biggest news stories of 2015. Take the sheer number of American Catholics, add the diplomatic skill of the Vat ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-23
There is a simple truth beneath the growing human tragedy of Europe’s refugee crisis and the European Union cannot address the massive influx of exhausted, desperate people in a manner compatible with ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-22
I was a young medical officer in the emergency unit of the Ola During Children’s Hospital in Sierra Leone when I advised the mother of a child with severe malaria to tell a blatant lie. Her daughter M ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-18
Over the past 15 years, the bottled-water industry has experienced explosive growth which shows no sign of slowing. In fact, bottled water -- including everything from “purified spring water” to flavo ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-16
The election of Jeremy Corbyn as the new leader of the British Labor Party is a reminder that life is rich with paradox. Globalization -- the web of travel, technology, trade, and information that bin ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-15
On August 11, China devalued its currency by 2 percent and modestly reformed its exchange-rate system. This was no earth-shattering event, but financial markets responded as if a meteorite had struck ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-14
The debate about whether Greece should leave the eurozone has revived the idea that Germany, and other similarly strong economies, would best serve the rest of the continent if they were the ones to e ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-10
The Islamic State has captured the world’s attention with gruesome videos of beheadings, wanton destruction of antiquities, and skilled use of social media. It has also captured a large part of easter ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-08
At the end of every August, central bankers and financiers from around the world meet in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for the US Federal Reserve’s economic symposium. This year, the participants were greete ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-08
China's current economic woes have largely been viewed through a single lens: the government’s failure to let the market operate. But that perspective has led foreign observers to misinterpret some of ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-07
What impact will China’s slowdown have on the red-hot contemporary art market? That might not seem like an obvious question until one considers that for emerging-market investors, art has become a cri ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-07
If there is a bright side to the turmoil that has roiled the global economy since 2008, it is that not every part of the world has erupted simultaneously. The first blow was the subprime mortgage cris ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-04
To solve the problem of antimicrobial resistance, the world needs not only new drugs but also new behavior – by all seven billion of us. Because of the misuse and overuse of antibiotics, common infect ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-04
The United States has 5 percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of the world’s prison population – about 2.2 million people, five times as many as in 1980. One out of every 100 American adult ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-01
Reports of the death of American power have often been greatly exaggerated. In the 1950s, the Soviet Union was thought to have surpassed the United States; today, the Soviet Union no longer exists. In ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-31
