Tag: Volume XIX Issue 1
Neurotech Wars: The Global Race to Control the Mind
A morning like any other. The hum of processors, the quiet glow of screens, humans connected to machines that can both control and simulate...
Silk Road to Belt and Road: Understanding Chinese Engagement in Kyrgyzstan
The Kyrgyz Republic gained independence in 1991. However, as the country is nestled firmly in the centre of Eurasia, its cities and people have...
The Shadow Economies of Exploitation: Human Trafficking and State Capacity in the Indo-Pacific
Human trafficking is not only a major human rights crisis, but also an economic storm that undermines wages, governments, and the region’s economic order....
How North Korean Women Broke the Command Economy
When Rüdiger Frank visited North Korea, he expected to see surreal images of xenophobia and nationalist pride that the regime’s tightly controlled media showed...
China’s Rare Earth Elements Trade Policies
Rare earth elements (REE) have been a key subject of geopolitics in recent years, and in 2025, they are a more pressing topic than...
Financial Inclusion: Islamic Banking in East Africa
Despite rapid globalisation, roughly half of the world’s adult population still lives outside the formal banking system. For some, the obstacles are practical: limited...
Independent Money
From the start of his second administration, American President Donald Trump sent shockwaves through global financial markets and the community of economists by taking...
Aging Economics
The global age structure is undergoing an unprecedented transformation. We are witnessing the flattening and even inversion of the population pyramid for the first...
Government of the Old, by the Old, for the Old
“People will always have children,” was German Chancellor Adenauer’s response to criticism of his pension reform in 1957. In retrospect, Adenauer could not have...
Laicus: People, Religion, State
Laicus is a Latin word that means “of the people”, meaning common people and not of the clergy. This is where the French term...
