The Mission Economy: Mazzucato and the Case for an Entrepreneurial State (UPSC Economy)
The iPhone's smart bits — the internet, GPS, the touchscreen, Siri — were all funded by the state, not Apple. That single fact sits…
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Modern Monetary Theory (MMT): Can a Government Just Print Money? (UPSC Economy)
Modern Monetary Theory says a government that issues its own sovereign, floating currency can never go broke in that currency — the real constraint…
Degrowth: Can an Economy Thrive Without Endless Growth? (UPSC Economy)
Degrowth argues that rich economies must deliberately shrink their resource and energy use to live within planetary limits while still improving wellbeing. Here is…
Neuroethics and Cognitive Liberty: Protecting the Mind in the Age of Neurotech (UPSC Ethics/Science & Tech)
Brain-computer interfaces can already read neural activity and are starting to write to it — which makes the mind the next frontier of privacy.…
Lethal Autonomous Weapons: The Debate Over ‘Killer Robots’ and Human Control (UPSC Science & Tech)
Lethal autonomous weapons — 'killer robots' — can pick and kill targets without a human pulling the trigger. Here is the full debate: the…
De-Dollarisation: The Slow Challenge to the Dollar’s Global Dominance (UPSC Economy/IR)
The US dollar still commands about 57% of global reserves and 88% of trade invoicing, yet a quiet de-dollarisation push is under way. Here…
The Splinternet: The Fragmentation of the Global Internet (UPSC IR/Governance)
The single, open, global internet is quietly splitting into rival national and bloc internets — gated by China's Great Firewall, Russia's sovereign-internet law, the…
Weaponised Interdependence and Geoeconomics: Turning Trade and Finance into Weapons (UPSC International Relations)
When the West cut Russian banks off SWIFT and froze $300 billion in reserves, it showed the world that economic interconnection is now a…
Minilateralism: Small Groups, Big Diplomacy in a Fragmenting World (UPSC International Relations)
Minilateralism is the rise of small, flexible, issue-based coalitions — the QUAD, I2U2, BRICS, SCO and more — in place of slow universal bodies.…
Techno-Nationalism: When Technology Becomes Geopolitics (UPSC International Relations)
Techno-nationalism is the idea that a nation's command of strategic technologies — chips, AI, quantum, rare earths — is now the core of its…
Climate Migration: Displacement in a Warming World (UPSC Environment/IR)
Most people displaced by a warming climate never cross a border — they move within their own country. Here is the full picture of…
The 15-Minute City: Rethinking Urban Life Around Proximity (UPSC Geography/Governance)
The 15-minute city says your work, shops, school, clinic and parks should sit within a 15-minute walk or cycle of home. Here is the…