Blog Posts tagged with : Globalisation
What Would American Progress on Climate Change Look Like?
Posted by on Mar 28, 2013If the right of a great power is that it doesn’t need to follow a global consensus, the US has played that role masterfully in the past half century. America has preserved an exceptionalism on any number of issues – such as its failure to ratify the UN International Covenant on Human Rights, its defense of the state’s right to teach evolution as scienc...
Climate change in real dollars and cents
Posted by on Sep 28, 2012Many have heard that climate change will be costly, but the numbers almost seem large enough and far enough in the future to be beyond reality.In 2006, the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change suggested that the costs of mitigation and adaptation [more] could reach 5 per cent of global GDP per annum and as high as 20 per cent under a worst-case sc...
Key lessons from the French presidential election
Posted by on May 08, 2012I spend roughly 40 per cent of my time in Asia, 44 per cent in Europe and the remainder in diverse parts of the world. When in Asia, I am conscious of how Europe seems remote and increasingly irrelevant, certainly when judging from the media. I was in and out of Asia during the months running up to the French presidential election; there was very little cove...
Five Brics in search of mortar
Posted by on Apr 03, 2012Economist Jim O'Neill, former head of global research at Goldman Sachs, coined the term "Brics" in 2001. It has both specific and symbolic significance. The specific is that it referred to four countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China [more] – which O’Neill saw as the leaders among the new emerging powers, the heavyweights that would make a dif...
An orange alert on trade
Posted by on Mar 26, 2012No one has ever surpassed John Maynard Keynes in his description of the benefits of globalisation (The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1919) in the early 20th century: The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, [more] the various products of the whole earth, in such quantity as he might see fit, and reasonably...
