Complex Systems – Schirach Report

Hollande’s Poor Efforts At Attracting Foreign Investors To France Telling investors "We are not afraid of you" is not much of a marketing message. Likewise, telling them that you intend to simplify taxation and immigration procedures is not going to get you very far

By Paolo von Schirach February 18, 2014 WASHINGTON – “France is not afraid to open itself up to the...

Democracy Is More Than Free Elections As America's Founders recognized, self-government is premised on sensible, educated citizens pursuing the common good on the basis of realistic ideas

By Paolo von Schirach February 15, 2014 WASHINGTON – In America many, including well-educated people, believe that “democracy” is really...

3 D Printers Are Amazing; But They Also Tell Us That Factory Jobs Will Soon Disappear When you will be able to make your own toaster at home using your 3 D printer millions of factory jobs will be unemployed

By Paolo von Schirach January 29, 2014 WASHINGTON – We know a lot about the dark side of globalization. Information...

The Bad “Lesson” of The EU Debt Crisis Is That There Will Always Be A Bailout Other underperforming European economies know that there is a safety net. But this creates no incentive to really improve the fundamentals

By Paolo von Schirach July 31, 2013 WASHINGTON – The situation in Europe turned from really dramatic into just...

Europe Will Continue Bailing Out Its Weak Southern Members This endless financial aid program is not sustainable. What will Germany do after its political elections?

By Paolo von Schirach July 8, 2013 WASHINGTON – Back in 2009, at the very beginning of the Eurozone...

Xi Jinping’s China Is A Country With Major Aspirations Undermined By Serious Systemic Weaknesses China's economy may have crested, while its citizens are becoming restless

By Paolo von Schirach June 9, 2013 WASHINGTON – It is a good thing that President Obama hosted Xi...

Chinese Media Openly Discuss “Smog Crisis” People made aware of public health risks, costs of going green

WASHINGTON – What is most remarkable about the almost historic “smog crisis” enveloping China is that all the...

Europe Avoided Disaster – But The Economies Are Fragile And So Are The EU Institutions – Expect Current Weakness To Continue

By Paolo von Schirach January 15, 2013 WASHINGTON – These days in Europe there is a far...

America Is Now A Two Tier Country – Tier One Sends Robots To Mars – Tier Two Underperforms Even In Ordinary, Low Tech Tasks – Worse Yet, Tier Two Refuses To Learn

By Paolo von Schirach Related story: https://schirachreport.com/index.php/2012/08/02/the-book-the-great-stagnation-explains-that-the-us-is-not-growing-much-because-the-fantastic-wave-of-innovation-that-led-to-high-growth-is-over-invest-in-science-in-order-to-generate-brand-new-tec/ August 24, 2012 WASHINGTON – America is now a two...

Society and The Economy Should Be Viewed As Complex, Interdependent Systems, Not As Machines, Argue Authors Hanauer and Liu in “The Gardens of Democracy” – But Who Is The Gardener?

By Paolo von Schirach April 28, 2012 WASHINGTON – The interview on the Charlie Rose show broadcast...