Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (May 7, 2021)
Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (May 7, 2021)
Had the Roman empire not unraveled, the modern world may never have come about; Reskilling and the Future of Work Post-Pandemic; What is China’s biggest economic challenge for the next 20 years?
Read: The fall of the Roman Empire wasn’t a tragedy for civilisation. It was a lucky break for humanity as a whole [via Aeon]
Read: Is it feasible to publicly fund the global energy transition? [via Policy Tensor]
Listen: What is China’s biggest economic challenge for the next 20 years? [via McKinsey China]
Listen: The inequality at the heart of the pandemic [via Nature]
Watch: Reskilling and the Future of Work Post-Pandemic: CFR Independent Task Force on the Future of Work: James Manyika, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company; and Penny Pritzker, Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Watch: Nobel Laureate Professor Abhijit Banerjee delivered the first Vice-Chancellor’s Open Lecture for 2021 on Thursday, 29 April 2021, titled “Good Economics for hard times.”