The fundamental basics of ‘economics’ evolve around the question how society will be able to satisfy unlimited wants with limited resources. The premise of economics is that ‘wants’ are constant and infinite due to constantly changing demands, but resources in the world to satisfy human wants are always limited to the amount of natural or human resources available. Leadership in Economics revolves around the idea of choice in prioritizing which wants can be fulfilled and what needs to be produced for the economy.
The articles and events posted in this chapter shed light on how the fundamentals of economics can be studied, and how this knowledge can be used to steer society.
Google and Facebook have become huge rivals in the digital ad space with the tech giants hoovering up 70 per cent of online advertising in the US between them, according to Marketwatch. While […]
Organising committee The Future Leadership Institute Antwerpen will be organizing a webinar on 17 February 2021. This event will be in English. Topic The evening will start with a keynote on Japanese business […]
Global GDP will drop three percent below pre-pandemic estimates by the end of 2021, with many Western nations seeing ‘deeper and longer-lasting’ effects compared to China and other Asian economies, a study suggests. Moreover, […]
Businesses that want to thrive in the 21st century need to throw out the old marketing playbook that puts the customer first, according to new research from the McCombs School of Business at The […]
Economists use the term hysteresis to describe the phenomenon that, when conditions in an economy change, the effects of that change often remain even after the conditions return to normal. COVID and its […]
Professor Wendy Carlin (UCL Economics) discusses how Covid-19 will change the way people talk about public policy and the economy, from general conversation to academic rhetoric and more formal language. Like the […]
In a novel approach to analysing the impact of the COVID19 pandemic sweeping the world, the Brussels and Washington DC based healthcare consultancy Vital Transformation (VT) compared the strategies adopted by several […]
Just like you can’t treat a termite infestation by fumigating only one room in a house, you can’t control the coronavirus pandemic by targeting interventions to a specific region or country, says […]
The UK Government is currently asking people to limit non-essential contact and travel to work from home, in order to slow the spread of COVID-19. But it has not – to date – put […]
Organising committee: The Future Leadership Institute Antwerp The Future Leadership Institute Antwerp will be organizing a session on the 4th of March 2020 at the prestigious Paleis op de Meir, Antwerp, Belgium. Topic: This session of the […]
Work four days a week, but get paid for five? It sounds too good to be true, but this debate is front and center within numerous European economies, not only because of […]
Digital platforms such as Uber and Airbnb have revolutionised the services we use. But progress rarely comes without a price and a certain amount of controversy. Recently, both companies found themselves (separately) in […]
With shopping days to Christmas and New Year fast running out, how many of us are thinking about the ethics behind what we buy? This can be a difficult area to understand, […]
Financial investment by the European Union into certain geographic areas does not endear local citizens to the EU unless it is coupled with new employment opportunities, a new study from the London […]
One of the more recent members of The 7R Future Leadership Institute is Mr. Teun Depreeuw. Teun Depreeuw is founder and owner of Muurtuin.be, a company specialized in designing, manufacturing, installing and maintaining vertical gardens. Click the picture to read more.
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