American Gulag – The Shocking Legacy of Slavery: Author article by Lyric Hale
In the next instalment of her regular column, top economic commentator and What’s Next? author Lyric Hale discusses the shocking exploitation of the growing, mostly black, US prison population by private corporations and the government profiting from prison labour. Hale traces this disturbing practice to the slave trade, and an unclosed constitutional loophole that continues to be exploited today. … Read more
The Failure of the Arab Spring – Soft Power and Soft States: Author article by Lyric Hale
In the next instalment of her regular column, top economic commentator and What’s Next? author Lyric Hale discusses social media and its new role as a catalyst for political movements. Looking in particular at the failures of the Arab spring, Hale highlights the difficult realities that lie behind the twitter rhetoric. Author Article by Lyric Hughes Hale By now, … Read more
Author Article by Lyric Hale: The New Law of the Sea and the Geopolitics of the Internet
In the next instalment of her regular column, top economic commentator and What’s Next? author Lyric Hale discusses how the growing infrastructure of cloud servers, data centres and undersea fibre optic cables is having an enormous influence on the economic and political development of countries, particularly in Africa. Author article by Lyric Hughes Hale I live about thirty minutes from … Read more
Author Article by Lyric Hale: Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide – Why We Need a Global Floor on Interest Rates
In the next instalment of her regular column, top economic commentator and What’s Next? author Lyric Hale discusses why an international floor on interest rates is crucial if we want to ensure a steady return to a healthy global economy. Article by Lyric Hughes Hale I recently attended the 3-day annual meeting of the American Economic Association here in Chicago. … Read more
Author Article by Lyric Hale: The Conference of the Birds – The Coming Accidental War with Iran
2011 has been an extraordinary year for events in Muslim countries, with regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya toppling spectacularly (not to mention the death of Osama Bin Laden in May). In the next instalment of her regular column, top economic commentator and What’s Next? author Lyric Hale discusses the US’s relationship with Iran, a country which has somewhat … Read more
