GAVNet Collaborative Curation

This virus wasn't something we knew nothing about. There was so much we knew, from day one, including because of SARS, the previous almost-pandemic that was also a similar coronavirus. We could have used that vital pre-information better if we had matched the requisite epistemic humility that a pandemic requires-an acknowledgement that we aren't certain of anything-with an insistence that this situation wasn't a blank slate. We could have utilized our prior knowledge to plan ahead, while not letting go of the uncertainty-taking thoughtful steps but without overstating our confidence.

paper proceeds as follows: Section 2 expands upon the physical threats posed by environmental breakdown; Section 3 articulates how nature-related risks feed through to the real economy and the financial system; Section 4 lays out and critiques the market fixing approach to sustainable finance and considers supervisory responses to nature-related risk; Section 5 develops precautionary approaches to financial supervision and policy recommendations; and Section 6 concludes.

The billionaire is working with the W.H.O., drugmakers and nonprofits to defeat the coronavirus everywhere, including in the world's poorest nations. Can they do it?

COVID-19 Could Linger for Years-Just as Influenza Did a Century Ago

Human beings are naturally creative tool users. When we need to drive in a nail but don't have a hammer, we easily realize that we can use a heavy, flat object like a rock in its place. When our table is shaky, we quickly find that we can put a stack of paper under the table leg to stabilize it. But while these actions seem so natural to us, they are believed to be a hallmark of great intelligence-only a few other species use objects in novel ways to solve their problems, and none can do so as flexibly as people. What provides us with these powerful capabilities for using objects in this way?

This is why you can eat in a restaurant but can't have Thanksgiving. ​​​

In anticipation of his forthcoming article on Social Democracy in PSL Quarterly, and a Phenomenal World series on the topic, we begin this interview by discussing alternatives to financial liberalization, before turning to a discussion on the future of welfare politics, development strategy, and contemporary models of economic growth.