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Academic Research and public funding
Pensions, retirement plans and Debt, Government Budget Deficits
Debt, Government Budget Deficits and the USA
Public vs. Private Markets and the role of Government - Political Divisions in the USA
Industrial Policy - Government Policy, Investment and Economic Development
Piketty - Wealth, Inequality, Taxes, Policy
European governments and investment in scientific research, innovation
DARPA - defense advanced research projects agency, USA
Executive Orders - Presidential Power in the USA and Political Division
Government Budget Deficits and the Economic Impact (USA) of the COVID19 - Coronavirus
Innovation and Government Investment in Research R&D
USPS - the US postal service
Pros and cons of privatization
Democracy, Capitalism and free markets
a collection about Wealth, Inequality, Taxes, Policy and Elizabeth Warren’s ideas
a collection about Government Policy and Innovative ideas

Resources within this category

Article

Oil in Brazil. The perils of Petrobras

Why Lula keeps meddling with Latin America’s top oil company. His worst instincts are undermining the national oil company’s hard-won gains | The A... (2024)


Article

Technology and the state. Surveillance capitalism

Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping. Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police | Business (2023)


Article

Software power. How India is using digital technology to project power

Narendra Modi sees his country’s digital public infrastructure as an Indian Belt and Road Initiative | Asia Once known as the “India stack”, the... (2023)


Article

Banking. The financial system is slipping into state control

Government control the banking sector; What will it look like after the next spell of instability? | Finance & economics (2023)


Article

What Happens if the US Defaults on its Debt?

Understand the different types of defaults, what happens if the US defaults on its debt, and how it could impact your finances. (2023)


Article

What would James Madison have thought of the filibuster? - The Washington Post

An interview with a leading historian of Madison's political thought. (2022)


Article

Is Pandemic Australia Still a Liberal Democracy? - The Atlantic

How long can a democracy maintain emergency restrictions and still call itself a free country? … “ is now testing an app as Orwellian as any in ... (2021)


Article

Why San Francisco’s city government is so dysfunctional | The Economist

Covid-19 has exposed many of the city’s old problems—and some new ones, too | United States (2021)


Article

Northern Ireland, born of strife 100 years ago, again erupts in political violence

Brexit has reopened an old battle over Northern Irish identity, leading to clashes in the street. Scores have been injured in the troubled UK terri... (2021)


Article

Taiwan’s revolutionary hackers are forking the government | WIRED UK

They overthrew the government. Now they have to work out how to govern “Fork” is used in open source communities to describe the process of crea... (2021)


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Ctrl+Z - Joe Biden terminates much of Donald Trump’s legacy | United States | The Economist

What a recent flurry of executive orders shows about the drawbacks of executive fiat (2021)


Article

Turn on the spigot - The EU’s €750bn recovery plan comes one step closer

It’s part of an overall €1.8trn package (2020)


Article

Charlemagne - The European Parliament: powerful yet puny | Europe

MEPs have plenty of clout, but no idea how to use it (2020)


Article

MIT - Brazil is sliding into techno-authoritarianism

For many years, Latin America’s largest democracy was a leader on data governance. In 1995, it created the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, a... (2020)


Article

Palantir picks up more COVID-19 contracts, this time with the VA

Palantir, the data analytics company co-founded by Peter Thiel, is already an active tech player in the scrum for federal contracts, but it’s playi... (2020)


Article

Finland Gave People $640 A Month, No Strings Attached. Here’s What Happened. | HuffPost

The world's most prominent trial of universal basic income has ended -- and the first results are in. (2019)


Article

Code for America promotes citizen-driven government with $2 million investment from Knight Foundation

Code for America expands program to promote citizen-driven government in the digital age, with a new $2 million investment from Knight Foundation -... (2018)


Article

When Local Newspapers Close, City Financing Costs Rise - CityLab

Without watchdogs, government costs go up, according to new research. (2018)


Article

The enduring mythology of the whiz kid

In government, the real change makers aren’t 24-year-old male engineers parachuted in from Silicon Valley, but a diverse range of people who have w... (2018)


Article

Everything you know about innovation is wrong

When it comes to redesigning how government functions, most of the common assumptions about innovation don’t hold up, write Sara Hudson and Hana Sc... (2018)


Video

Why is Argentina’s economy such a mess?

Rampant inflation, a booming black market for US dollars and crippling debt - welcome to Argentina, one of the world's most dysfunctional economies... (2023)


Video

France’s Pension Reforms: Why Is There So Much Opposition? | WSJ

French President Emmanuel Macron’s government invoked a special provision called Article 49 Thursday to push through a controversial pensions overh... (2023)


Video

Why So Much Land In The West Is Owned By The Federal Government

Why So Much Land In The West Is Owned By The Federal Government (2023)


Video

USPS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

As the U.S. Postal Service faces financial catastrophe, John Oliver discusses why the service is so important, what brought it to this point, and w... (2020)


Podcast

The case for ending the filibuster - Vox

Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. Even if Democrats win the White House, take the Senate, and hold the House, most of their ... (2020)


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