The relationship between biology and politics is manifold, ranging from politics within biology and implications of politics for biological research to intrinsic political dimensions of biological insights. Politics within biology plays out in the everyday practice of academic and applied science and has recently reached a new dimension in the context of priority and patent disputes, whereas po...

T he fundamental approach to policy prescription in economics derives from the recognition that the presence of market failures—like externalities, public goods, monopoly, and imperfect competition—creates room for well-designed public interventions to improve social welfare. This tradition, already clear in Pigou (1912), was elaborated by Samuelson (1947), and still provides the basis of most ...

Stabilizing the world’s climate entails a massive, global policy push. That, in turn, implies coordination at an unprecedented scale. Progress on such a coordinated, global, ‘top-down’ solution has been slow, to put it mildly. It’s no wonder then that emphasis has shifted toward a more ‘bottom-up’ solution. Policies, after all, are enacted at the national, regional, or local level. And each cou...

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a multi-billion-dollar collection of ongoing and planned Chinese projects in Pakistan ranging from infrastructure development to the establishment special economic zones sharing technical expertise by China. For China, it an integral part its ambitious Belt Road Initiative (BRI) through which aims establish hegemony Eurasia Africa. Pakistan, opport...

Economics played little role in the decision to create the euro – politics was king. Going forward, however, economics moves to centre stage. Should the Eurozone worry about admitting new members who are very economically different from incumbents? What are the costs and benefits of euro-adoption for potential joiners? Are the famous Maastricht Criteria the right economic tests for potential me...