by KAUSHIK BASU* The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing medical professionals and economists alike to grapple with issues that cross the normal boundaries of their respective disciplines. Recognizing this creates scope for policy interventions that can contain the pandemic without crushing [...]
In April, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) published its latest trade forecast predicting global trade in goods would fall by between 13% and 32% in 2020 due to the economic impact of Covid-19. The forecasts are illustrated in the graph below, showing [...]
*by Simon Kuper Richard Florida and his wife and children spent most of lockdown in their apartment on Miami Beach. When they returned home to Toronto, the city had changed. “When we left, you couldn’t get stuff readily delivered here,” [...]
by Sylvie Kauffmann * The global crisis caused by Covid-19 is more like a cyclone than an earthquake. It does not radically change the data in the international game. However, the violence of the shock accelerated the tendencies that were [...]
by Vasilios Coufos* On July 5, 1687, the world was fully formed. The condensed pages of Sir Isaac Newton's "Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica" became the most solid scientific background on which the coming "century of logic" was built. The consequence [...]
Article by Christos Kotsakas* May 10th, marks 9 years since Skype, the popular VoIP app with millions of users around the world, passed into the hands of Microsoft. However, the history of this service goes through pubs, legal entanglements and [...]
Article by Urania V.Zervobeakou* The rapid spread of the corona SARS-CoV worldwide and the resulting pandemic have significant side effects on social and economic life and the business environment in general. It is therefore certain that in the near future, [...]
Article by Irene I. Papadopoulou* Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the main body of the Greek economy and an integral part of its production mechanism. The Greek economy has pinned its hopes on growth and gradual release from the [...]
Article by Mirada Xafa* Coming out of a ten-year debt and memorandum crisis, Greece has had the misfortune to be faced with a pandemic that is causing great damage to the economy. Restrictive measures for rallies lead to the temporary [...]
Article by Olivia Kyriakidou* Until very recently, our absolute habit, but also the "must", was to leave our personal life out of work and vice versa. We went to work wearing work uniforms and stripped of any staff that completed [...]
