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October 7, 2016

Syria

Weekend Reading: Syria’s Trauma, Tunisia’s Sayings, and Egypt’s Economic Woes

Reading selections for the weekend of October 7, 2016.

Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

October 7, 2020

Robots and Robotics

With "Burn-In," Cole and Singer Show Us the Robotic Future We Need to Avoid

Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution gives us the worst-case scenario of how increased automation can affect the U.S. economy and society.

French robot Pepper, detecting whether people are wearing face masks and if not, instructs them to wear them.

Blog Post by Robert K. Knake Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program

July 26, 2011

Financial Markets

Challenges and Opportunities for the World Economy and the IMF

Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), discusses fragility in the global economy and how the IMF can mitigate international financial crises. This meeting was…

Event

October 25, 2021

Global

“The Price of Peace”: Biography of John Maynard Keynes Wins Prestigious Arthur Ross Book Award

Zachary D. Carter has won the twentieth annual Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Arthur Ross Book Award for The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes (Penguin Random …

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May 24, 2018

United States

Prescriptions for a Solvent Future

This is the second session of the American Debt: Causes, Consequences, and Fixes symposium.