Tax policy affects economic growth slowly and mainly through long-term investment decisions. Higher corporate taxes reduce investment returns, while tax cuts raise investment, especially in R&D and education. Using historical OECD data, the study shows that short-run growth effects are modest, but long-run impacts on innovation and human capital are substantial and decisive for sustained prosperity.

Healthcare innovation often fails because leaders rely on abstract resolutions rather than culture. Replacing New Year’s goals with daily rituals that foster psychological safety, learning, and agility can embed innovation into everyday work. Aligning incentives, leadership behavior, and routines helps reduce burnout and makes innovation sustainable in 2026.

The text argues that strict environmental standards can attract green industries rather than drive them away. Evidence shows firms producing green products prefer “green havens” with strong regulation to ensure credibility, transparency, and legitimacy. As sustainability becomes valuable, globalization is shifting toward a “race to the top,” where regulation supports competitiveness.

The text argues that heavy social media use, especially passive scrolling, is linked to higher loneliness and emotional distress among young people. Childhood adversity shapes how adults use platforms, making social media a coping mechanism rather than a source of connection, and reproducing deeper social and mental health inequalities.

The text argues that streaming platforms like Netflix have become the new gatekeepers of global culture. Through acquisitions, revenue-sharing rules, algorithms, and vertically integrated business models, platforms now control content creation, visibility, and monetization, reshaping power relations among studios, creators, and audiences and redefining cultural governance worldwide.

The text examines whether Generative AI increases national income. Using patent data, it finds that countries innovating in GenAI show a small but positive GDP per capita growth premium. While effects are modest, they are economically meaningful, appear stronger than general AI, and suggest GenAI is already contributing to long-term economic growth despite its recent emergence.