News: Business & Economics
Don’t look up! Look around.
June 17, 2022The recent Hollywood film Don’t Look Up! satirizes the failure of the US government to grapple effectively with climate change. The movie mocks social, political, […]
AI and the future of labor
November 2, 2021A wave of new automation technologies, including artificial intelligence and robotics, have prompted concern about their substantial and potentially negative impact on jobs and workers […]
Lebanon’s tragic path from economic miracle to collapse
August 5, 2021The most daunting challenges to a society’s well-being are typically complex and intertwined, and we often reduce them to one or two digestible variables. The […]
Upholding human dignity amid COVID-19 and economic collapse
July 28, 2021“The largest economic contraction since 1709’s great frost . . .”; “The largest collapse since the 1930s . . .”; “The largest recorded decline of […]
In The Media
This is how irregular migration between Central America and the US would be fixed, according to an expert
June 24, 2021In a conversation with GloboEconomía, Senior Associate at the Keough School’s Pulte Institute for Global Development Tom Hare highlights long term solutions to irregular migration from […]
Viewing corporate social responsibility through the lens of integral human development
June 11, 2021Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a heavily researched and much discussed topic—and a controversial one. Companies exist to provide products and services to customers; in […]
In The Media
Rebels with a business cause
May 11, 2021Public Radio International features new research by Assistant Professor of Politics and Global Affairs Rachel Sweet. Sweet investigates business dealings between the Rally for Congolese […]