SubjectEconomy and business
Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook. City diplomacy in times of conflict
Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook’s academic and professional career is in the purest Atlanticist tradition. Specialising in the interface between foreign policy and cities,...
A new energy model for the cityThe end of the era of abundance
The economic, social and political model developed over the last 150 years simply cannot be sustained for physical...
A new energy model for the cityPublic electricity suppliers, a new tool for energy change
Faced with the current situation of soaring energy prices, cooperative and public electricity suppliers can contribute enormously to the energy transition to bring...
The world leader in audiovisuals also chooses Barcelona. Mike Blackman
Mike Blackman is a cosmopolitan executive, a fine speaker and an even better public relations person. He has brought Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), the...
An uncertain futureWho writes the rules of the capitalist game?
The capitalist game is about employing a social resource – the legal system – for private gain. It is played in the service of private actors, but the decisive actors...
An uncertain futureLess when it was most needed: the energy crisis
In the midst of a changing world made more complicated by climate change, we must abandon the suicidal idea of perpetual growth on a finite planet and start talking...
An uncertain futureThe future is not set in stone
Crises are occurring one after the other and the turmoil they cause is hitting us harder and harder. People are beginning to realise that the wellbeing we enjoy may...
Amazon, the super-termite
Fulfillment: America in the Shadow of Amazon is the result of a decade of research by journalist Alec MacGillis on the effects...
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