Post-coronavirus, how should the West approach China?

Covid–19 has done more than cause a medical and economic crisis. It is provoking a major reorientation of the foreign policy of both the United …

Coronavirus and the economic value of human life

The Covid-19 crisis has provided many grim examples of some familiar problems in health economics and cost-benefit analysis, and of the ‘tragic choices’ that …

Inflation: The next threat?

The policy reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic will increase budget deficits massively in all the world’s leading countries. The deficits will to a significant …

“Next Generation EU” spending plan: Towards strengthening or weakening the EU in the long run?

While the media, right and left-wing parties and the average newspaper reader celebrate in anticipation of “helicopter money” from Brussels, or otherwise the so-called …

The end of the liberal international order

If there seems to be any consensus among academics it is that the dominant Western liberal international order is coming to an end. With …

Do low emissions zones really work?

At the moment, the general sense of alarm caused by the supposed consequences of climate change is something that is shared by all Western …