The story of oil is focused on the US. But our oil-centred world was made through wider global relations.
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Burning leaded gasoline releases toxic lead into the environment, and for 100 years people around the world have been dealing with the health effects. How did a century of toxic fuel come to be?
Just because a tech company has a big share of the market doesn’t mean it has the power to keep it.
As the government considers antitrust action against big US technology companies, a global business scholar identifies four myths that need busting first.
The T-Mobile-Sprint merger is the latest example of weakened enforcement of antitrust laws, which reduces competition and exacerbates already-record levels of inequality.
Institutions that benefited from donations from benefactors such as Epstein are facing hard questions. In a somewhat similar ethical debate in 1905, a pastor argued for return of a Rockefeller gift.
Advocates and opponents of breaking up Facebook, Google and other technology giants are falling prey to some serious misconceptions.
There are mounting calls to dismember the likes of Google, Apple and Amazon, but most people seem to have overlooked the biggest threat of all.
Efforts to curb railroads’ monopoly power in the 19th century hold lessons for 21st-century policymakers and internet giants alike.
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Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Principal Lecturer, School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton
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Associate Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University
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Professor of Communication, Radford University
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Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of American History, Stanford University
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Professor of Political Economy and Global Development, and Director of SOAS Middle East Institute, SOAS, University of London; Independent Social Research Foundation