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Technology and economics

MORI Building DIGITAL ART MUSEUM teamLab Borderless, Tokyo (Japan). Photo: rabbit_akra (CC BY 2.0). Elcano Blog
Technology and economics Experts Comments

Digital truce at times of post-crisis

In the case of the current coronavirus crisis, cyberspace and complex digital-based world are testing terrains, playgrounds, and trial and error processes.

By Raquel Jorge Ricart
27 Apr 2020 //
6 mins Reading time
Lobby of the closed Grand Lisboa Hotel Casino venue during the Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak in Macau. Photo: Macau Photo Agency (@macauphotoagency)
Technology and economics Analyses

A coordinated, unlimited and flexible insurance policy to respond to the pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic requires a coordinated global response. This analysis highlights some of the main components.

By Gonzalo García Andrés
08 Apr 2020 //
21 mins Reading time
Empty streets en Milan (Italy) caused by partial quarantine (March 2020). Photo: Alberto Trentanni (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Technology and economics Analyses

Coronavirus: economic threat, political response and implications

What will be the economic impact of the coronavirus and what economic policy responses are required by this unprecedented situation?

By Federico Steinberg
03 Apr 2020 //
16 mins Reading time
Infodemic, Person with a mask and a mobile phone. Photo: engin akyurt (@enginakyurt). Elcano Blog
Global Spectator Experts Comments

Infodemic and mediademic

Amid the coronavirus crisis there is also an overload of information, something that the Director General of the WHOdescribed as an 'infodemic'.

By Andrés Ortega
31 Mar 2020 //
6 mins Reading time
Big Tech map. Photo: Dunk (CC BY 2.0). Elcano Blog
Technology and economics Experts Comments

Big Tech companies and States: policy or politics?

Big Tech companies are playing an increasingly strategic, decision-level and geopolitical role. But there are still three main questions to be solved.

By Raquel Jorge Ricart
02 Mar 2020 //
6 mins Reading time
Inequality in Spain. Photo: Antonio Marín Segovia (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Technology and economics Experts Comments

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.

By Miguel Otero Iglesias
26 Jul 2019 //
5 mins Reading time
Ericsson’s new Head Quarters in Kista, Stockholm. Photo: Arild (CC BY-SA 2.0). Elcano Blog
Technology and economics Experts Comments

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.

By Miguel Otero Iglesias
14 Jun 2019 //
6 mins Reading time
US President Donald J. Trump Speaks at the 2019 National Association of REALTORS®. Photo: Brian Copeland (CC BY 2.0)
Technology and economics Working Papers

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.

By Richard Higgott
31 May 2019 //
10 mins Reading time
Technology and economics Experts Comments

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.

By Miguel Otero Iglesias
21 Nov 2018 //
6 mins Reading time

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