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Tariffs, automation and inequality: why US jobs won't return but developing countries will still lose
No full textHeadlines around Trump’s sweeping tariffs have focused on trade wars, inflation and the geopolitical fallout. But a more profound shift is taking place, argues Viet Nguyen-Tien. Rather than restoring American jobs, these tariffs may accelerate automation, undermining the export-led industrialisation model that has lifted millions in developing countries out of poverty. Why does this matter, and what must developing countries do in response
AI and the far-right riots in the UK
No full textLSE Fellow Beatriz Lopes Buarque explains the role played by AI in fuelling last year’s far right riots in the UK
ESG needs global regulation
No full textMultinational corporations’ complex cross-border ownership structures allow them to reallocate activities that hurt their ESG performance in one location to another with laxer rules. Stefano Cascino and Maria Correia write that global ESG performance can only achieve meaningful improvements through coordinated efforts that close the regulatory gaps
Is the managed migration of health workers "ethics washing" or something more?
No full textMany countries across the world struggle with the emigration of health workers. But do frameworks for ethically managing healthcare worker emigration make a real difference? Tine Hanrieder and Leon Janauschek argue that while these approaches can provide some benefits, they have far too many shortcomings to be considered good practice
Is there a way to fight back?
No full textProfessor John Chalcraft introduces his new book, ‘From Subordination to Revolution – A Gramscian Theory of Popular Mobilization
Activist investors: Alliance Trust and Elliott International
No full textThis case tells the story of the decline of Alliance Trust, an investment company established in 1888 in Dundee, Scotland, as a result of the actions of an active investor, Elliott Management. Topics include the business model of investment funds, the role of active investors, corporate governance, business ethics and leadership
A metric of knowledge as information compression reflects reproducibility predictions for biomedical experiments
No full textForecasting the reproducibility of research findings is one of the key challenges of metascience. Above-chance predictions have mainly been achieved by pooling the subjective ratings of experts, and how these predictions are formed remains to be understood. Here, we show that reproducibility forecasts made for the Brazilian Reproducibility Initiative (BRI), a large-scale replication of experiments in the life sciences, are significantly correlated with K, a principled metric of knowledge as information compression. For each study in the BRI sample, we calculated K by dividing the effect size, measured in bits of Shannon entropy, by the descriptive length (a proxy of the complexity) of the study’s methodology, calculated as the optimal Shannon encoding of a conceptual graph representing the replication protocol. We found that experts’ predictions about reproducibility were statistically associated with K values and with the complexity of protocols. This relation was robust to controlling for study methodology and other possible confounding factors. These results suggest that expert raters partially judge the reproducibility of findings by assessing the ratio between the information yielded and the information required by a study, and they support the hypothesis that scientific knowledge may be understood and studied through the lenses of information compression
Preventing violence: the past, present and future of the public health approach
No full textPreventing Violence argues that we can move towards safer and better societies by advancing holistic public health approaches to violence prevention. It explores the serious limitations of contemporary public health approaches and proposes an alternative path forward. Based on data from a three-year, ESRC-funded project 'Public Health, Youth and Violence Reduction', it also examines in-depth the work of 20 Violence Reduction Units in England and Wales. The book makes clear recommendations for policy makers, practitioners and researchers working to prevent violence and improve the lives of children and young people
Identity politics is not over, it's going to intensify: the ancient roots of identity politics
No full textIs the dominance of identity politics over? Yesterday, we published an article which claimed that it is. But today pioneering political scientist Jean-Paul Faguet argues that we should expect identity politics to get even more intense and dangerous. Class-based politics is giving way to identitarian politics, and the rise of a tribal, nativist populism is only accelerating this shift. This should be no surprise, he argues: politics organised around class interests which cut across ethnic boundaries was always a historical anomaly. In the broad sweep of human history, identity politics has been the norm
How is peace made?
No full textConflict Mediation in the Arab World edited by Ibrahim Fraihat and Isak Svensson. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2023. Pp. xv + 440 + index. $59.95 (paperback). ISBN 978-0-81563-813-1.Spiritual Contestations: The Violence of Peace in South Sudan by Naomi Ruth Pendle. Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, 2023. Pp. xiv + 281 + bibliography + index. £26.99 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-84701-338-5.Peacemaking and Peacebuilding in South Africa: The National Peace Accord, 1991–1994 by Liz Carmichael. Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey, 2022. Pp. xxv + 459 + bibliography + index. £50.00 (hardback). ISBN 978-1-84701-337-8