Radu Craciun

In March 2014, the Washington Post conducted a survey in the US on a national sample on Russia`s invasion of Crimea. The question asked was: how should the US act in Ukraine? Given that two thirds of Americans claimed that they were watching the situation “somewhat closely”, the survey findings came as a surprise. Only one […]

This week a debate between Jack Ma, the CEO of the Alibaba Chinese conglomerate and Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla made headlines  . The debate between the two took place at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference held in Shanghai. We should say as an aside that organizing the conference in China was no […]

The Amazon rainforest is going up in flames. Here is one telling piece of statistics among the plentiful statistical data on the millions of hectares of forest wiped out in the last weeks. According to the New York Times, the rate of Amazon deforestation has increased by 39% this year from the same period last […]

At the end of 2016 I published a post entitled “The war of the century which will define our future”. There I noted that globalization had caused the Capital – Labor balance which ensured the sustained growth of a thriving middle class in the advanced economies after the second world war to be broken. In […]

I recently had the chance to participate in the INSEAD Alumni Forum Europe 2019 reunion along with 600 participants, first-class panelists on topical subjects. A wonderful occasion to catch up on how the members of the economic elite in Europe and elsewhere are thinking. The main recurring idea of the debates, including the INSEAD dean`s […]

One week after the European elections, the results continue to generate comments and assertions.  Most analyses tend to converge upon the idea that, fortunately, nationalist, populist and parties claiming sovereignty failed to make significant gains or anyhow, they stayed below levels initially feared. Voter mobilization which resulted in a turnout of more than 50%, almost […]

Gross Domestic Product, the GDP, is a measure of the added value produced in a country. It is stubbornly tracked and mentioned to trace national economic changes. GDP growth has been traditionally the sole desire of economic and political elites. Any dip (negative growth in economists` lingo) in the GDP is closely scrutinized and two […]