Iceland's experience in narrowing the gender-based wage gap tends to confirm the insights of Harvard University economist Claudia Goldin's Nobel Prize-winning research, observes Lilja Alfreðsdóttir. bit.ly/3ygctJW

In China’s highly complex political economy, many of the factors that can be regarded as incompatible with innovation are offset or complemented by innovation-enabling policies and structures, points out Zhang Jun. bit.ly/4btGYu1

Whichever party wins the upcoming election in South Africa, continuing to pursue a non-aligned approach to foreign policy will remain crucial, notes Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship’ Adekeye Adebajo. bit.ly/3JOrNjo

A breakthrough toward global cooperation to prevent future pandemics is possible this month; but governments must resist a last-minute torrent of misinformation about what the envisioned agreements will do, writes Gordon Brown. bit.ly/3UzdV1t

.Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו stands in a long line of defenders of Israel who seek to brand critics as anti-Semites. Now the US House of Representatives has lent its support to blurring the distinction between anti-Semitism and opposition to Israel, laments Peter Singer. bit.ly/3ylGOqb

The Gaza protests at America’s elite universities are motivated by the misguided idea that to be a good, humane, and moral person, one must be an “anti-Zionist,” argues Ian Buruma. bit.ly/3JSxxZy

What TikTok Got Wrong About America by Nancy Qian Project Syndicate prosyn.org/p5otbRq

Free to read at the link: China’s economic growth has slowed, and rather than taking steps to bolster its domestic consumption, it is trying to export its way out of its current problems (as it has done in the past), writes Joseph Nye. bit.ly/4bqwxYi

Younger Germans are more prone to adopt a zero-sum mindset. Given that young people did not enjoy the fruits of economic prosperity like their older counterparts, this should not come as a surprise, writes TU München’s Dalia Marin. bit.ly/44zHtAl

.DanielKahneman’s groundbreaking research helped explain human behaviors overlooked by traditional economics’ rational-actor model, notes Cambridge University’s Antara Haldar. bit.ly/3WwxkCB

US threats to impose tariffs on countries perceived to have weak currencies would introduce further uncertainty into global trade, potentially damaging investment and growth, notes Peterson Institute’s Maurice Obstfeld. bit.ly/3WsY0nS

The difficulties facing economic and market forecasters are complicated by two broader phenomena that could last for years to come, cautions Mohamed A. El-Erian. bit.ly/4dsb2YO

In the third edition of his seminal work of political economy, David Ricardo noted that, “If machinery could do all the work that labour now does, there would be no demand for labour.” The same warning holds today, write Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson. bit.ly/44zkKVq

Security concerns are at heart of the new politics of gold. When the Czech Republic joined NATO in March 1999, it sold almost all of its gold reserves. Now, it is buying gold hand over fist, Princeton University's Harold James observes. bit.ly/4bh0bj7

In a new PS Say More, Alison L. LaCroix explains why “originalist” methods of constitutional interpretation are deeply ahistorical, describes the zero-sum relationship between state and federal power in modern America, and more. Free to read at the link: bit.ly/4abn4mo

Free to read at the link: While China and the US both mismanaged COVID-19, Sino-American scientific cooperation during previous epidemics still offers valuable lessons for the future, notes Joseph Nye. bit.ly/4bqwxYi

A certain degree of class guilt about attending America’s most expensive universities could be contributing to the swell of Pro-Palestine campus demonstrations, observes Ian Buruma. bit.ly/3JSxxZy

Free to read at the link: Despite China’s socialist principles and glaring levels of social inequality, workers and their children tend to be excluded from the benefits of its broader techno-development strategy, writes Harvard University sociologist Ya-Wen Lei. bit.ly/4bquq6Q

Free to read at the link: Last year, Maria Ressa and Nishant Lalwani argued that wealthy liberal democracies must mobilize their vast resources to promote a more resilient global information ecosystem. #WorldPressFreedomDay bit.ly/3woSubi

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