At the end of last year, The World Economic Forum published their Global Agenda 2015 report, which summarized the top 10 issues that were thought to dominate the world over the upcoming 12 to 18 months. The identified trends range across the social, economic and political sphere and, naturally, many of these trends have implications…

Africapitalism is not a play on words: it’s an economic philosophy developed by Tony Elumelu, a Nigerian visionary entrepreneur and philanthropist. His philosophy represents the private sector’s commitment to the economic transformation of Africa through long-term investment that generates both economic prosperity and social value. The Tony Elumelu Foundation promotes this philosophy through the Africapitalism Institute, one…

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.