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The financial crisis of 2007-2012 was the first wake up call to the inadequacy of the euro area architecture when facing a large systemic crisis. This column explains why the Covid crisis will leave a deeper impact on the European policy system, and re-introduces the Vox debate on Europe’s economic architecture in the context of the transformations that we have witnessed over
Talks and Presentations 1 April 2021: Skeptical Inquirer - Gaming against Misinformation John Cook gave a webinar for the Skeptical Inquirer about using gamification and cartoons to overcome some of the psychological hurdles facing scientists and educators as they respond to misinformation. Learn about a number of psychological challenges which hinder the countering of misinformation and science denial and how gamification offers a unique opportunity to convert effortful critical thinking tasks into quicker, easier heuristics. In this presentation, John Cook outlines how he applied psycholog...
The panelists will discuss questions such as: What should young African entrepreneurs know about the opportunities and the potential of the circular economy and circular practices? To what extent are circular policies and practices part of Africa’s industrial transformation? How can African-led research on the circular economy inform policy-making? And what should the research focus on? Michael Boyle, founder of circular experience, will co-moderate the event; he offers his perspective on circularity: “I believe that Africa is one of the centers of frugal innovation, the process of reduci...
No Time to Celebrate: Progressive Politics in the Pandemic’s Wake Getty/Tayfun Coskun Sam Hananel Introduction and summary Progressives around the world are asking what lessons can be taken from Joe Biden’s presidential victory as they look to push back against populism and nationalism and set out an agenda to recover and rebuild following the COVID-19 pandemic. What were the decisive factors of Biden’s winning political strategy and agenda, and how do they overlap with more general concerns about how the pandemic has transformed the environment in which progressive politics coheres?...
The members of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), the policy advisory committee of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), have selected Sweden’s Minister for Finance, Ms. Magdalena Andersson, as Chair of the Committee for a term of three years. Andersson, who will be the first woman to hold the position, resumes January 18, 2021. She succeeds Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, who has chaired the IMFC since January 18, 2018. Ms. Andersson has been Minister for Finance since October 2014. Her previously held positio...