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Conceptualising Markets
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- May 11, 2019
By Pascale Massot and Julian Gruin Markets are ubiquitous in contemporary everyday life and society as well as central features of the global economy. Markets have political, economic, social, and cultural origins, as well as consequences. But in the public sphere, we usually operate with a conceptually impoverished account of what markets are and how
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Is the Sky the Limit? Risk, Uncertainty, and Nature
- Analysis
- May 11, 2019
By Sylvain Maechler The Living Planet Report 2018, published by the World Wild Fund for Nature in collaboration with the research division of the Zoological Society of London, recently valued nature at an estimated US$125 trillion. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the self-proclaimed international standard setter bringing public and private actors together, is currently
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What Makes a Market Economy?
- Analysis
- May 11, 2019
By Alice Chessé What makes a market economy? To many, the answer is simple: they are countries where the market is the main mechanism of resource allocation. Yet, this intuitive definition is at odds with the political impact of the dispute over China’s non-market economy status at the World Trade Organization (WTO). When China joined
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China, State Capitalism, and the Global Financial Order
- Analysis
- May 11, 2019
By Johannes Petry In 1989, capital markets did not exist in China. Fast forward to 2018, China’s capital markets have become the second largest equity markets, second largest futures markets, and third largest bond markets in the world. More companies have listed in Hong Kong and Shanghai than anywhere else in the world. And while
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