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Why Investing in Public Health Saves More Than Money
Prevention programs deliver remarkable returns: childhood vaccinations save $11 for every dollar invested, preventing millions of illnesses and deaths. Evidence-based interventions like tobacco taxation and sodium reduction cost under $100 per quality-adjusted life year, far more efficient than treatment. Yet prevention receives only 3% of healthcare spending, despite addressing most disease burden.

Dr Joan Madia
Feb 35 min read


The Rolex Paradox: How Scarcity Creates Value and Hands it to the Secondary Market
Rolex deliberately limits supply to preserve exclusivity, which creates excess demand that spills into secondary markets. There, prices rise far above retail, turning watches into investment-like assets. While scarcity strengthens brand status, much of the financial value is captured by resellers, and speculation increases market volatility.

Prof George Batsakis
Feb 35 min read


Nigeria’s Hungry Children: Poverty and Malnutrition Threaten a Generation
Child malnutrition in Nigeria is widespread and closely linked to persistent poverty. Stunting and undernutrition affect millions of children, contributing to high mortality and long-term losses in human capital. Low socioeconomic status limits access to food, healthcare, and maternal nutrition. Despite many poverty programs, weak governance and poor implementation have hindered progress, requiring evidence-based, multi-sector policies.

Dr Khalid W. A. Shomali
Jan 166 min read


The Economics of Sanctions: how costly they are to impose, how damaging they are.
Economic sanctions reduce output but are rarely decisive. Their effects are modest, uneven, and slow, hitting poorer, less diversified economies hardest. Financial sanctions are more disruptive but costly for sanctioning countries and encourage long-run adaptation. Sanctions signal resolve and constrain options, but they rarely deliver rapid political change.

Prof Emanuele Bracco
Jan 166 min read


An Organizational Culture for Innovation in Healthcare
Healthcare innovation depends on organizational values rather than technology or top-down mandates. When leadership fosters psychological safety, patient focus, and learning from failure, frontline staff feel empowered to innovate. Aligning incentives, time, and behavior with these values enables sustainable, bottom-up improvement.

Prof Gillie Gabay
Jan 165 min read


The long shadow of taxation on investment
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.

Dr Francesco Venturini
Jan 153 min read


The New Year's Resolution for Innovation: Rituals as the 2026 Compass
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.

Prof Gillie Gabay
Jan 135 min read


From Pollution Havens to Green Havens: When Environmental Standards Help Countries Become More Competitive
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.

Prof George Batsakis
Jan 135 min read


Scrolling for Connection: Social Media, Loneliness, and the Long Shadow of Childhood
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.

Prof Cristina Elisa Orso
Jan 135 min read


Power and Money on the Platforms: How Streaming Studios Became the New Gatekeepers of Global Culture
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.

Prof George Batsakis
Jan 125 min read
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