What you may ask has the author Jane Austen to do with the dialectic? Well, quite a lot, if one look at one of her main novels, Sense and Sensibility which I have just finished reading for the umpteenth time. On the one hand, Austen seems to follow what Alistair MacIntyre terms as Aristotle’s ‘virtue ethics’…

Europe has been facing a demographic crisis for years and has a reported 11 million empty apartments. At the same time there are millions of people enduring hardship and risking death in an effort to come into Europe and the regions political leaders should seize this moment and solve two problems in one stroke.

Welcome back from the break! I took some holidays but also I attended a couple of conferences. One of them (the meeting of the Academy of International Business sub-Saharan Africa Chapter) took place in August in Johannesburg (Jo'burg to friends). It was a fantastic opportunity to share ideas with scholars and business people based or…

For the first time in recent history, the state of China’s economy is the object of examination, not only by “China experts” – provided such an animal exists – but by everybody interested in current economic conditions anywhere in the world. For the first time we are seeing that what happens to the Chinese economy…