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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?

Abhas K. Jha
May 7, 2021
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Weekend Reading, Watching and Listening Recommendations (May 7, 2021)
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  1. 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]

  2. Read: Is it feasible to publicly fund the global energy transition? [via Policy Tensor]

  3. Listen: What is China’s biggest economic challenge for the next 20 years? [via McKinsey China]

  4. Listen: The inequality at the heart of the pandemic [via Nature]

  5. 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

  6. 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.”

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