Attention Economy


Saturday, April 30, 2016

International Affairs – Key Readings

Sykes-Picot Process and the Middle East Mess – Time to Redraw National Borders?

France – The New ‘Sick Man of Europe’

The Economist on UK’s Brexit Debate
http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21697858-british-economy-would-be-neither-destroyed-nor-unleashed-leaving-eu-if

Jean Pisani-Ferry on Policy Choices – Discretion versus Consistency
“One thing that security policy and economic policy have in common is that they force governments to choose between minimizing immediate damages and safeguarding credibility. Economic debates also frequently place in opposition to one another those who emphasize unconstrained judgment and those who regard consistency as the gold standard of good policy.”