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Commanding Heights 20 Years On: What Remains In Light Of Recent Events?, Paul R. Koch
Commanding Heights 20 Years On: What Remains In Light Of Recent Events?, Paul R. Koch
Scholar Week 2016 - present
In the spring of 2002, the Public Broadcasting System in the United States aired a three-part, six-hour series entitled, “Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy.” These programs, which were based on the book of the same title by Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw, covered the debate over economic theories in the 20th century (“The Battle of Ideas”), the transition from state-dominated to market-oriented economies in the last two decades of this century (“The Agony of Reform”), and the various dimensions of the latest wave of globalization (“The New Rules of the Game”). This series is a reflection …
Preaching The Same Message: Economic Populism On Both Sides Of The Atlantic, Paul R. Koch
Preaching The Same Message: Economic Populism On Both Sides Of The Atlantic, Paul R. Koch
Scholar Week 2016 - present
In a lecture delivered at Illinois Wesleyan University three years ago, Gro Harlem Brundtland, the former Prime Minister of Norway and Director-General of the World Health Organization, observed that Americans who maintain that “Washington is the problem,” and Europeans who assert that “Brussels is the problem,” are essentially making the same argument. Since the global financial crisis of the late 2000’s, many discussions of economic policy around the world have centered around the rise of “populist” sentiments. Examples of these developments would include the “Brexit” process in the United Kingdom, the "America First” agenda of the Trump Administration in the …
Keynote: Branding A Nation In The 21st Century, Kriengsak Chareonwongsak
Keynote: Branding A Nation In The 21st Century, Kriengsak Chareonwongsak
International Conference on Marketing
The concept of a ‘’Nation as a Brand’’ is not new, but has already been a historical reality. In the 21st Century however, it is necessary for each country to pay much more attention to this topic due to the greater and increasing interconnectedness and globalization of our world in every aspect; economically, politically and socially, as illustrated by the KOF Index of Globalization in 2011 which collected the data of 186 countries from 1970 to 2008, concluding that our world is more globalized (KOF Swiss Economic Institute, 2011).