News: Business & Economics
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 […]
New technologies, introduced thoughtfully, can improve workers’ lives
May 11, 2021You might think that technology will never replace your job. But how realistic is this belief? According to automation theories in economics, technological improvements lead […]
Their deaths shame us all: neoliberalism, COVID-19, and the banality of evil
March 16, 2021In late March 2020, as the potential scale of the COVID-19 epidemic became clear, a televised conversation unfolded between Fox News host Tucker Carlson and […]
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Piraino named director of Ford Program
February 4, 2021
Faculty Research
Congressional report cites Keough School China expert
December 18, 2020
In The Media
Time to revisit trans-Pacific trade
December 11, 2020Joshua Eisenman, associate professor of politics, analyzes China’s efforts to advance its global economic position and emphasizes the importance of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific […]
What can a chicken nugget from Russia tell us about technology, agriculture and human development?
December 2, 2020In July, the global fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken announced a partnership with a Russian company, 3D Bioprinting, for the purpose of producing chicken […]
Lessons from Puerto Rico: inter-country relationships, crises, and human thriving
October 29, 2020The relationship between inter-country integration and economic crises depends on how integration is implemented. Economic integration, understood as a high degree of ease in the […]