It is desirable for a polity to agree on a social contract as that is what “we” as a society manage collectively. If there is further agreement that the “we”…
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Usually, it is a no-brainer for a business to say that it is important to strategize for the year(s) to come. Planning for future demand shifts, organizational challenges and leadership…
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Language becomes a tool of fools when it simplifies complex systems and developments into slogans such as democracy and revolution. One blatant case of language confusion that today dogs many…
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One banker, interviewed for this issue, said it: “Bankers feel threatened, bullied, and feel that they are [made to bear] responsibility for something that they did not do.” The stewards…
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For one thing, human constants have to be considered. When Walter Bagehot, the founding editor of The Economist, reflected on the role of the “English Political Economy” shortly before his…
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Journalists can tell you a thing or three about what it can mean to be wanted – most of them either unpleasant or seriously dangerous. The first common experience of…
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All individual and group-based economic activity – simply, all human economic activity – inextricably relates to the community or society that the individual or economic group is embedded in. This…
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To resuscitate a dying person is a scary task. Let’s say you walk along the coast and discover a distant cousin laying there lifeless. She is not even breathing any…
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If owning Lebanon’s digital future was the objective of a massively multiplayer online game, the MMO design could easily be for a win-lose contest where one winner could walk away…
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Seen in isolation, the situation of Lebanon at the onset of 2022 is that of a country which is still in the depths of a mindboggling crisis. The national crisis…