The Globalist

Is China’s purported innovation in green technology real — or is it largely a scaling up of current inferior technologies?

How can Europe achieve — and sustain — a post-crisis economic recovery?

As long as there is a surplus of illiterate poor women, why would millions of poor households in India switch from using firewood and animal dung for fuel?

Does it make economic sense for Germany to try to hold the eurozone together?

The European Union’s Nobel Peace Prize doen’t ensure peace in the future.

Will the economic costs of secession keep Europe’s separatist movements in check?

Why does the idea persist that Europe’s Catholic nations have always been economic slow-growers?

Why do some economists persist in stereotyping Europe’s Catholic nations as laggards, when they practically invented what we today call globalization?

What were the motivations for Facebook’s owners and investment bank advisors taking the company public?

Will Putin’s third presidential term be one of growing political and economic risk?