International Selection

To finally create an African single market, the continent should look to Amazon, the e-commerce giant, for inspiration. A column by Carl Manlan.

Banks ought to form mutually supportive groups. This would avoid the over-emphasis on risk-sharing and the underestimation of behavioral risks inherent in state-provided solutions. A column by Hans-Werner Sinn.

If the U.S. wants to shoot itself in the foot, then the best response may be to let it. But it looks like the politics will trump (as it were) the economics. So the danger of escalation is real. A column by Barry Eichengreen.

It is hard to overstate the social impact the World Cup will have within Russia. People who will witness this international event will learn to appreciate diversity and avoid discrimination. A column by Konstantin Sonin.

The new course of policy might soon lead Italy into the precipice of insolvency, capital controls, and even the exit of the Euro area. A column by Fabrizio Zilibotti.

As the diplomatic tumult in the cases of North Korea and Iran shows, the madman strategy has made a comeback. It is now being adopted even in debates about reforming the Eurozone. A column by Harold James.

Luigi Zingales, Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, says that crony capitalism is growing rampant.

The next EU-summit will not show very substantial results. The European Union is too deeply divided for that to happen. A column by Charles Wyplosz.

Paul De Grauwe, professor for economics at the LSE, sees the set-up in the Eurozone as «unsustainable».

Christopher K. Lee, China rating expert of Standard & Poor's, expects more defaults of Chinese companies.

If we reflect on Marx' intellectual legacy, we should do so not in celebration, but to inoculate our open societies against the totalitarian temptation that lurks in his false theories. A column by Carl Bildt.

The Trump deal would shift the Chinese piece of America’s multilateral imbalance to higher-cost imports from elsewhere – the functional equivalent of a tax hike on American families. A column by Stephen S. Roach.