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Dinner for One, served by the poor? How our micro-cosmic intuitions mislead us in a macro-cosmic world Vincent Czyrnik   ABSTRACT This essay uses the familiar New Year’s Eve sketch Dinner for One as an entry point to examine a central question in political economy: why do widespread perceptions of injustice persist despite historically unparalleled […]

  Gottfried von Haberler’s contributions to international trade theory and policy have been disruptive and yet the works written by one of most prominent Austrian economists are unfairly undervalued when analysing modern events in world economy, such as the “new protectionism”. Gottfried von Haberler’s theory remains a cornerstone of modern international trade. His simple and […]

  At the Munich Security Conference, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered a remarkable speech. In many respects, it was refreshing and stood out positively from the lukewarm and uninspired addresses of the past two decades. As expected at Munich, he focused on foreign and security policy, European cohesion and transatlantic relations. Notably, he projected a […]

  For more than two decades, the EU–Mercosur agreement remained out of reach—endlessly negotiated, periodically revived, and repeatedly declared dead. Since its launch in 1999, it has weathered financial crises, political shifts, and environmental disputes on both sides of the Atlantic. If finally implemented, it would unite the European Union and the Mercosur bloc—Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay—into […]

  Universities are often idealized as neutral spaces of knowledge creation and critical thinking. However, this image has never been entirely accurate, and it is increasingly at odds with reality. Across many disciplines, research agendas and teaching practices are shaped less by open-ended investigation and more by ideological alignment. The politicization of academic life has […]