Overview* The social contract shapes everything: our political institutions, legal systems and material conditions, but also the organisation of family and community, our well-being, relationships and life prospects. And yet everywhere, the social contract is failing.How should society pool risks, share resources and balance individual with collective responsibility? What We Owe Each Other offers new […]
Overview* We live in an extraordinary time. Technological advances are happening at a rate faster than our ability to understand them, and in a world that moves faster than we can imagine, we cannot afford to stand still. These advances bring efficiency and abundance–and they are profoundly deflationary.Our economic systems were built for a pre-technology […]
Overview* Stephanie Kelton’s brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs, expanding health care coverage, climate change, and building resilient infrastructure. Any ambitious proposal, however, inevitably runs into the buzz saw of how to find […]
Egypt’s Economic Profile and Statistics is an annual booklet containing summary data and information about various aspects of the Egyptian economy. Designed in a graphical and tabular format, this publication is intended mainly for the business community and investors seeking reliable information about the main developments in the Egyptian economy. This edition covers fiscal year […]
Overview* Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the environmental crisis. Taking her inspiration from the ‘moonshot’ programmes which successfully co-ordinated public and private sectors on a massive scale, Mariana Mazzucato calls for […]
This paper employs a mixed data sampling approach to analyse the potential impacts of daily exchange rate on monthly inflation rate. Our results indicate that the response of CPI inflation to changes in the NEER is asymmetric. While exchange rate depreciation results in a persistent increase in the inflation rate, the inflation reducing effect of […]
Overview* Global Megatrends:• Demographic Transitions• Fast Urbanization• Climate Change• Shifts in The Global Economy• Market Volatility and Commodity Cycles• Technological Changes• Fragility and Violence• Controversy regarding Geopolitics & Globalization• Pandemics and Communicable & Non-Communicable Diseases
Overview*Abusive lending practices, misleading investors, manipulating prices, deliberately falsifying figures, cheating, obstruction and taking advantage of ‘the dumbest person in the room’ – they’re actually the main source of profitability in finance. If you want to make money in the industry, you need to find ways of sabotaging either your clients, your competitors or the […]
Overview*Just as 2020 was overwhelmingly about healthcare responses to Covid-19 (and how much many governments got wrong), 2021 will overwhelmingly be about economic responses to Covid-19’s lingering symptoms and scar tissue (debt burdens and misaligned politics), even as vaccines roll out and the healthcare emergency fades. As economic issues come to the fore, there is […]
Overview*Covering many social and political factors, as well as those that are more purely macroeconomic, the authors address topics including ageing, dementia, inequality, populism, retirement and debt finance, among others. This book will be of interest and understandable to anyone with an interest on where the world’s economy is going.