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State entities too complex to be treated as startups
Oped, Mariana Mazzucato and Rainer Kattel, Published on 17/04/2025
» Around the world, governments are trying to reinvent themselves in the image of business. Elon Musk's DOGE crusade in the United States is quite explicit on this point, as is Argentina's chainsaw-wielding president, Javier Milei. But one also hears similar rhetoric in the United Kingdom, where Cabinet Office Minister Pat McFadden wants the government to foster a "test-and-learn" culture and move towards performance-based management.
So what are we supposed to make of MAGAnomics?
Oped, Antara Haldar, Published on 20/02/2025
» While the end of World War II 80 years ago ushered in an age of reason, Donald Trump's return to the White House has ushered it out. His MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement promises to take a wrecking ball to the postwar global economic order, raising the question of what will replace it.
Time to cast a wider net
Oped, Editorial, Published on 05/11/2024
» Police officers with the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division deserve a pat on the back for arresting three human trafficking suspects believed to be involved in the suffocation deaths of three Rohingya in an overcrowded truck on Oct 17.
Youth voice vital
Oped, Postbag, Published on 31/01/2024
» Re: "DLA says it's time to listen to youth", (BP, Jan 29).
Southern discomfort
Oped, Editorial, Published on 17/06/2023
» A mock referendum campaign by a group of Muslim students in the deep South on separatism has triggered panic across the kingdom. The move is highly sensitive and risks breaching Section 1 of the charter which says that Thailand is an indivisible kingdom.
Trucks, haze and action
Oped, Editorial, Published on 10/03/2023
» The high levels of PM2.5 air pollution seen this month revive the question of what national and local governments could have done but failed to do. Within this, the proposed relocation of Bangkok Port out of the capital city -- part of the national master plan to reduce PM2.5 -- attracted media attention.
Get your own gifts!
Oped, Postbag, Published on 24/12/2022
» Re: "Dept set to inspect NY gift baskets" (BP, Dec 19).
Prison ills
Oped, Postbag, Published on 25/08/2022
» Re: "Indigenous rights bill languishes," (Editorial, Aug 21).
Dealing with dogs
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/07/2022
» Re: "Bred for fighting," (PostBag, June 29).
Fixing exam errors justly
Oped, Editorial, Published on 27/04/2022
» The Council of University Presidents of Thailand (CUPT) has made the right decision in allowing the exam results of pre-university students who failed to put in verification codes of the exam papers to be counted.