The prime minister of Sri Lanka recently announced that the country’s economy has collapsed.
The pandemic recession from March to April 2020 and its aftermath–up to and including the current surge of inflation and the risk of another recession as the Fed raises interest rates to choke off inflation–seems to require a different set of lessons than basic textbook models.
The future of work increasingly relies on short-term freelance contracts rather than full-time employment.
The war in Ukraine has disrupted global agricultural exports from Moscow and Kyiv.
The future of work keeps on changing as organizations are automating and reskilling processes.
Ukraine is the 8th largest producer of wheat in the world, but the disruption to their output was, in part, responsible for triggering a global food crisis.