The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally. It focuses on current affairs,international business,politics,technology,and culture,and is mostly written and edited in Britain. Based in London,the newspaper is owned by the Economist Group,with its core editorial offices in the United States,as well as across major cities in continental Europe,Asia,and the Middle East. The newspaper has a prominent focus on data journalism and interpretive analysis over original reporting,to both criticism and acclaim.
Douglas Murray McGregor was an American management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954. He also taught at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise had a profound influence on education practices.
Urban seismic risk is the risk of earthquakes damaging or destroying people and things in towns and cities. Even if a big earthquake is likely urban seismic risk can be minimized with good earthquake construction,and seismic analysis. One of the best ways to deal with the issue is through an earthquake scenario analysis. Earthquake engineering can reduce the risk.
Savi Technology was founded in 1989 and is based in Alexandria,Virginia.
In business and finance,a golden share is a nominal share which is able to outvote all other shares in certain specified circumstances,often held by a government organization,in a government company undergoing the process of privatization and transformation into a stock-company.
Okayplayer is an online hip-hop and alternative music website and community,described by Rolling Stone as a "tastemaker" and "an antidote to dull promotional Web sites used by most artists".
Matthew Yglesias is an American blogger and journalist who writes about economics and politics. Yglesias has written columns and articles for publications such as The American Prospect,The Atlantic,and Slate. In 2014 he co-founded the news website Vox.
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Andrew Miller is a British journalist and author,best known for his debut novel,Snowdrops,published under the name A.D. Miller. He studied literature at Cambridge and Princeton and worked in television before joining The Economist magazine as a reporter in 2000.
Guided democracy,also called directed democracy and managed democracy,is a formally democratic government that functions as a de facto authoritarian government or,in some cases,as an autocratic government. Such hybrid regimes are legitimized by elections,but do not change the state's policies,motives,and goals.
David Rennie is a British journalist. He is a columnist for The Economist,where until September 2017 he served as the Lexington columnist. He is currently Beijing bureau chief and author of the Chaguan column on China. He is the son of Sir John Rennie,former 'C' of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
Al-Monitor is a news website launched in 2012 by the Arab-American entrepreneur Jamal Daniel. Based in Washington,D.C.,Al-Monitor provides reporting and analysis from and about the Middle East. Al-Monitor is the recipient of the International Press Institute's 2014 Free Media Pioneer Award.
Hu Xijin is a Chinese journalist who previously served as editor-in-chief and Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Global Times from 2005 to 2021.
Mustafa Suleyman is a British artificial intelligence (AI) entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Microsoft AI,and the co-founder and former head of applied AI at DeepMind,an AI company acquired by Google. After leaving DeepMind,he co-founded Inflection AI,a machine learning and generative AI company,in 2022.
The Global Liveability rank Ranking is a yearly assessment published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU),ranking 172 global cities for their urban quality of life based on assessments of stability,healthcare,culture and environment,education and infrastructure. Austria's capital,Vienna,was ranked the most liveable city in 2024,2023,and 2022 among the 172 cities surveyed by The Economist Intelligence Unit,having previously won in 2019 and 2018,and came second in 2017 and 2016. Auckland was ranked the most liveable city in 2021. Melbourne,Australia,was ranked by the EIU as the world's most liveable city for seven years in a row,from 2011 to 2017.
Carl Benedikt Frey is a Swedish-German economist and economic historian. He is the Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI &Work at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Fellow of Mansfield College,University of Oxford. He is also Director of the Future of Work Programme and Oxford Martin Citi Fellow at the Oxford Martin School.
Filecoin (⨎) is an open-source,public cryptocurrency and digital payment system intended to be a blockchain-based cooperative digital storage and data retrieval method. It was developed by Protocol Labs and shares some ideas from InterPlanetary File System allowing users to rent unused hard drive space. A blockchain mechanism is used to register the deals. Filecoin is an open protocol and backed by a blockchain that records commitments made by the network’s participants,with transactions made using FIL,the blockchain's native currency. The blockchain is based on both proof-of-replication and proof-of-spacetime.
Paola Sapienza is an American and Italian economist. She is a member of the Kellogg School of Management faculty at Northwestern University. She is also a research associate at the NBER and CEPR. Her fields of interest include financial economics,cultural economics,and political economy.
Abraham L. Newman is an American political scientist and professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University. His research focuses on the ways in which economic interdependence and globalization have transformed international politics. His work has appeared in publications such as the Financial Times,Foreign Affairs,and The New York Times.
Oryx,or Oryxspioenkop,is a Dutch open-source intelligence defence analysis website,and warfare research group. According to Oryx,the term spionkop "refers to a place from where one can watch events unfold around the world".
