Radu Craciun

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…

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…

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…

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….

Human civilization is faced with unprecedented challenges caused by a mixture of economic, demographic and climate-related factors. We would be misguided to imagine that “orthodox” solutions cautiously and slowly applied could actually work. It won`t happen. They will yield no…

The globalization of the last decades has undeniably led to less poverty and higher standards of living for a significant number of people in developing countries. It has helped reduce worldwide economic polarization at the expense of increased social polarization…

The political trends in Europe are worrying. Rising populist or nationalist parties overshadow the mainstream parties and thus endanger the European construction. As I already explained in a number of posts, in my opinion, the primary cause of the situation…