This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. The two days of the GES have been unlike any other experience in my life, academic or not. It wasn’t just the solution-oriented environment of the Symposium, the holistic approach to the topics or the sheer […]

This was the first time I bought something on the black market. Yet I would have expected to have to enter a semi-legal market for purchasing other items than a perfectly ordinary SIM card. But when the Myanmar government stopped issuing temporary SIM cards in July 2013, the only way […]

We cordially invite you to our public discussion, an event held within the initiative Globalization and the Internet, lead by Internet & Society Collaboratory and the blogger project FutureChallenges.org of the Bertelsmann Stiftung. The event – to be held mostly in English – will deal with the interactions between the Internet, trade and […]

This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013. Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. Most of the panels at the Global Economic Symposium had quite a strict format,  with a bunch of luminaries in direct agreement over a topic discussing what the best approach  to the issue would be. Sometimes there […]

  One of the most interesting and eloquent panels I attended this year at the GES was, surprisingly, one chock full of economists. Usually when you attend a lecture by economists you expect it to be quite occult and verbose, not unlike a philosophy lecture only with more focus on […]