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Davos 2015

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As the World Economic Forum convenes in Davos, much attention will be devoted to the usual suspects: Russia, China, the Middle East, and the eurozone. But other global risks – including protracted war, epidemics, inequality, and environmental disasters – have also come into view.

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  1. Facing Down Mental Illness
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    Facing Down Mental Illness

    Jan 28, 2015 Thomas Insel charts progress in combating one of the oldest and most widespread sources of human misery.

  2. Fanatics, Charlatans, and Economists
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    Fanatics, Charlatans, and Economists

    Jan 27, 2015 Jean-Marie Guéhenno traces today's extremism and terrorism to the post-Cold War eclipse of politics by market logic.

  3. Safe Driving for Fast Companies
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    Safe Driving for Fast Companies

    Jan 27, 2015 Estelle Metayer identifies two blind spots that can cause businesses to be run off the road.

  4. Emergency Education Now
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    Emergency Education Now

    Jan 27, 2015 Gordon Brown calls for the establishment of a permanent fund to keep millions of refugee children in school.

  5. LGBT at Work
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    LGBT at Work

    Jan 26, 2015 Beth Brooke-Marciniak urges companies to shift their cultural focus from "diversity" to "inclusiveness."

  6. Can China Avoid Deflation?
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    Can China Avoid Deflation?

    Jan 26, 2015 Yang Yao assesses Premier Li Keqiang's pledge in Davos to stop the Chinese economy's slide.

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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    America's president subscribes to a brand of isolationism that has waxed and waned throughout US history, but has its roots in the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine. This is bad news for nearly everyone, because it implies acceptance of a world order based on spheres of influence, as envisioned by China and Russia.

    hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
  3. hubbard4_Chen MengtongChina News ServiceVCG via Getty Images_scottbessent Chen Mengtong/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images

    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill

    Financial markets and official economic indicators over the past few weeks give policymakers around the world plenty to contemplate. Was the recent spike in bond yields a sufficient warning to Donald Trump and his team, or will they still follow through with inflationary stimulus, tariff, and immigration policies?

    wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.
  6. delaney1_Jose JimenezGettyImages_bahamas_dorian Jose Jimenez/Getty Images

    Turning the Financial Tide for Small Island States

    Maya Delaney & Aminath Shauna tout the potential of green and blue bonds to protect critical ecosystems and build economic resilience.
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    School Meals Provide Food for Thought – and Fuel for Development

    Gordon Brown & Kevin Watkins tout universal nutrition programs in lower-income countries to mitigate a lost decade for poor children.
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    A House Gutted by Fire

    Terry Lynn Karl blames the inferno now consuming Los Angeles County squarely on greenhouse-gas emissions.
  9. op_janeway17_Natalya KosarevichGetty Images_moneyhandslightbulb Natalya Kosarevich/Getty Images

    False Economies

    William H. Janeway highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.

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