March 18, 2012 I would like to talk to you today about the links between several subjects: global poverty, the loss of economic leverage in the United States, globalization and its implications for risk. And, finally, what kind of public policies might mitigate the...
By Gene Rotberg Galileo, Darwin and Freud were pilloried for exposing societies’ and individuals’ lack of centrality and control. Galileo for supporting the view that the earth was not the center of the universe; Darwin for arguing that we were not all that special,...
Trump Negotiator: We intend to levy a tax of 35% on any shipment of goods made in China by U.S. companies for export to the United States. Chinese Negotiator: Our Response: First, no goods or products from U.S. companies shall be sold in China unless the plant making...
An Open E-mail to My Son-In-Law Who is Concerned about the Loss of Decent Jobs for the Middle Class The problem you have identified – the loss of decent paying jobs, particularly in manufacturing, in a country of 320 million is a fundamental one. The dirty little...
Gene Rotberg, November 2018 Informal Remarks Tomorrow morning, around 7:30 a.m., I will be in a seminar that I have been attending each month for the last 18 years. The subject tomorrow is Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales – “The Clerk’s Tale.” In the prologue, she gives...
December, 2018 Ovid, the Roman poet, some 2,000 years ago, ended his masterwork “Metamorphoses” with these words: “I shall have mention on men’s lips forever, and, if the prophecies of bards have any truth, through all the ages, shall I live in fame.” His last Latin...
