Economy

Silicon Savannah: the technological district of the future is in Africa

Silicon Savannah seems almost an oxymoron: it embodies both the most advanced place in the world and that least touched…

13 years ago

Where is the best place for cycling? Unfortunately, it is not Italy

Cycling is firstly an ecological choice. It is quiet, clean and space saving: for everyone, the bicycle is a symbol…

13 years ago

Facebook invests (precisely) in Sweden

Facebook has chosen Sweden as the site for its first European data warehouse (the place which houses the server). How…

13 years ago

Bookshops, stores and the challenge of change

A few weeks ago, a meeting was held at the Foyles bookshop in Charing Cross Road in London, one of…

13 years ago

GDP? BES is better

Every community, country and society wants the best for its members. However, as I have already mentioned in the past,…

13 years ago

Big Data: do we really want to know “everything”?

In the international media, recently, we are hearing increasingly about the concept of Big Data, in particular in connection with…

14 years ago

A little psychology at the service of the people

The economy has always been at the center of public debate and governmental programs. Every government turns to economists for…

14 years ago

The Return of Al Gore

On the recommendation of a friend, I read Al Gore’s new book, The Future. The book revisits many of the…

14 years ago

A lesson in pragmatism from the North

Not everyone remembers that during the 1990s Scandinavian countries were struggling with unsustainable levels of debt.

14 years ago

The Chinese middle class is born. And the economy is changing

Have you seen the bizarre masks that many Chinese people wear on the beach? According to local tradition, people with…

14 years ago