Europe's Philosophy of Failure Stefan Theil January 4, 2008
What a country teaches its young people reflects its bedrock national beliefs. Schools hand down a society's historical narrative to the next generation. There has been a great deal of debate over the ways in which this historical ideology is passed on - Japanese textbooks that downplay the Nanjing Massacre, Palestinian textbooks that feature maps without Israel, and new Russian guidelines that require teachers to portray Stalinism more favorably. Yet there has been almost no analysis of how countries teach economics, a subject equally crucial in shaping foreign and domestic policies.
Teaching Entrepreneurship in the Arab World Stefan Theil August 14, 2007
Mohamad Hodeib speaks passionately about global expansion, stock options and the long, Red Bull-fueled nights spent drawing up the business plan for B-Com, his half-year-old start-up company that makes clothes with witty slogans.
The Club of Competitors Stefan Theil May 7, 2007
If the reports are on target, Europe will grow faster than America in 2007—for the first time in six years. European Union countries created 2 million new jobs last year, cutting unemployment to its lowest since 1991.
It's All About Attitude Stefan Theil April 30, 2007
With the demand for microfinancing on the rise, and tech start-ups heading back to Wall Street, entrepreneurship is key when it comes to economic growth these days. Transatlantic fellow Stefan Theil interviews Edmund Phelps, 2006 Nobel Prize winner, about the relationship between entrepreneurship and economy.
