Opinions

Many benefits can be derived from organizing a sporting event, and not necessarily only a mega-event. The advantages for a community that hosts sports happenings range from new infrastructure to a reappraisal and valuation of other local activities

Exactly twenty-five years ago, the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska started the journey toward an anthropocentrism of duties rather than rights

Companies trying to assess the risk of commercial activities within a given country should look at the institutional context, the role of the state and the quality of local resources. The political upheaval in Ukraine provides an instructive example

The lack of control and autonomy in one's job activity can harm personal health. New branches of neuroscience are now starting to make scientific connections between the psychological problems of stress and a series of chronic and acute physical ailments

Early retirees are more exposed to degenerative processes affecting analytical capabilities in older age with respect to those who stay in employment. Is the time ripe for rethinking the social taboos associated with staying at the workplace a few years longer?

At the root of the financial crisis, there is a massive balance-of-payments imbalance, which must be addressed. There is symmetry between debtor and creditor countries, so the solution must involve "virtuous" creditors as well as "faulty" debtors