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  The global race for critical minerals – lithium, cobalt, copper and rare earth elements – has intensified geopolitical competition. It is tempting to see the G7 and BRICS as two cohesive, rival blocs, each pursuing a fully formed mineral strategy. That picture is misleading. Instead, what we observe are two loosely affiliated constellations of […]

  “Das wissenschaftliche Denken ist in aller Regel dazu verleitet, die sprachüblichen Vorstellungen und Begriffe zu übernehmen und mit unbedeutenden Modifikationen als grundsätzlich gültig und brauchbar anzuerkennen, ohne zu beachten, dass damit die ganze Oberflächlichkeit, Vieldeutigkeit und Unbestimmtheit, die ihnen naturgemäss anhaftet, in die Wissenschaft mit einzieht und ihren sicheren, selbständigen und unbeirrten Fortgang hemmt.” […]

  The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement was signed in Islam’s holy city, Mecca. The tri-party agreement between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye was agreed between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkiye, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan. This is a pact between the three strongest predominantly […]

  “Conservative liberalism” is a hybrid political tendency that seeks to construct a balanced synthesis between liberty and tradition, market and state, individualism and social convention. Although liberals and conservatives have often formed tactical alliances in the domain of public policy, at the level of theoretical foundations, they are generally understood as two divergent intellectual […]

Hayek, the knowledge problem, and the question no central planner can answer Cambridge. Early 1930s. A Keynesian economist leans across the table and asks Friedrich Hayek a question he clearly considers decisive. “Is it your view that if I went out tomorrow and bought a new overcoat, that would increase unemployment?” Hayek pauses. The question […]