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Sami Mahroum

Sami Mahroum

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Sami Mahroum, a professor at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, is an adviser at the FARI-AI for the Common Good Institute, a fellow at the Knowledge Centre for Data & Society at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and the author of Black Swan Start-ups: Understanding the Rise of Successful Technology Business in Unlikely Places (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

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  1. Why Isn't E-Commerce Benefiting the Arab World?
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    Why Isn't E-Commerce Benefiting the Arab World?

    Feb 23, 2022 Sami Mahroum explains what is behind foreign firms' growing share of digitally mediated markets in the region.

  2. Agents of Automation
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    Agents of Automation

    Mar 26, 2021 Sami Mahroum pushes back on the emerging consensus that whatever new technologies can do they inevitably will do.

  3. An Interview with Sami Mahroum
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    An Interview with Sami Mahroum

    Jul 14, 2020 Sami Mahroum says why Americans have failed the COVID-19 lockdown test, cautions against rushing AI-based medical solutions, and proposes mechanisms for holding governments accountable for their public-health failures.

  4. Automation and Human Agency
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    Automation and Human Agency

    May 12, 2020 Sami Mahroum advocates a new approach to technological innovation that would strengthen resilience to shocks like COVID-19.

  5. How to Design a Lockdown
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    How to Design a Lockdown

    Apr 2, 2020 Sami Mahroum says governments must consider the psychological impact of COVID-19 containment measures.

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    What Can Stop the Shortening of American Lives?

    Michael R. Bloomberg shows how a loss of public trust in public-health professionals is undercutting US life expectancy.
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    American Sinophobia

    Stephen S. Roach warns that fear has driven US policymakers to level a litany of unsubstantiated charges against China.
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    Africa’s Prosperity Depends on Achieving Gender Equality

    Jane Kabubo-Mariara outlines steps policymakers can take to redistribute unpaid domestic work among households and communities.
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    Texas and the Perpetual Crisis of American Federalism

    Alison L. LaCroix

    By asserting its right to pursue an immigration policy at odds with that of the US federal government, Texas is reviving a constitutional debate that recurred throughout the early nineteenth century, culminating in the Civil War. It is an ominous reminder that the perpetuation of the Union can never be taken for granted.

    highlights the constitutional threat posed by the state's attempt to impose its own immigration policy.
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    Europe’s High Noon

    Harold James

    With Ukraine depleted and overstretched, and with Russia posing a security threat to the Baltics and Europe more broadly, diplomatic and strategic coordination is more necessary than it has been since the end of the Cold War. Yet political leaders in Europe and the United States look too weak to rise to the occasion.

    worries that Western political leaders lack the will to take the risky decisions that security demands.
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    A Breakthrough Opportunity for Global Governance

    Mubarak Al-Kuwari, et al. propose new international institutions to confront today’s AI-regulation and peacebuilding challenges.
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    Why Is Europe Moving Rightward?

    Federico Fubini considers why nationalist parties are gaining ground in countries that renounced nationalism decades ago.
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    Who’s Afraid of Price Controls?

    Tom Krebs & Isabella M. Weber explain why Germany's economy is paying dearly for the government's failure to cap energy costs in 2022.
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    How to Save the Pandemic Treaty

    Mariana Mazzucato explains what it will take to prevent or minimize the costs of future contagious outbreaks like COVID-19.

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