Inequality in Spain: let’s focus on the poor
The debate on inequality has intensified in Spain in the aftermath of the economic crisis. There is good reason for that.
Technology and economics
Europe is not behind China and the US in 5G technology
The picture that emerges from this preliminary research is that Ericsson is as advanced, or even more, in 5G technology than Huawei.
From trade diplomacy to economic warfare: the international economic policy of the Trump Administration
This paper is an analysis of the discursive practices of the international economic policy of the Administration of President Donald Trump, writ large. Within this conceptual context it offers an empirical case study of the US-China relationship across the spectrum.
Is Sri Lanka caught in China’s ‘debt trap’? A view from the ground
The feeling is that Chinese investment is putting Sri Lanka on the map and that suddenly everyone is now interested in coming.
A Contract to remedy the web
Treinta años después, Tim Berners-Lee propuso en la Web Summit en Lisboa un "contrato para la Web" para garantizar que la Red siga siendo libre y abierta.
An outbreak of ethics in Silicon Valley
To what can we ascribe this outbreak of ethics in Silicon Valley and elsewhere? The political awakening spread and became viral.
In the antechamber of a multi-front trade war
En el trasfondo de la antesala de la guerra comercial entre EEUU y la UE hay dos elementos de mucho mayor calado: la OMC y China.
The changing Chinese economic model: an opportunity for Spanish companies
This analysis focuses on China’s changing economic growth model and the important new business opportunities this change is generating for Spanish companies.
Psychographic advertising: the global battle to sway minds
The Cambridge Analytica case shows that almost anyone –private companies, governments, non-state organisations– with access to users’ data and a certain degree of technical sophistication can carry out the «psychographic advertising».
The world economy in 2018
The world economy seems to be rebounding definitively from the Great Recession, but many and varied risks still threaten consolidation of the recovery in 2018.
A global Cold War over Artificial Intelligence
There is a race, essentially between China, the US and Europe, to acquire new technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI). It will determine economic (and military) dominion in the not too-distant future.