Rostra Economica

Electric cars are becoming increasingly popular around the world. They not only offer a potential solution for combatting the climate...

Title: The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do and how to change Writer: Charles Duhigg Year of Publication: 2013 Review: Charles...

The invasive nature of the Covid-19 pandemic does not rest solely on biological factors: it has abruptly influenced vital areas of our...

The purpose of hallucinogenic plants in human societies has varied from religious rites to psychological healing. However, for the past...

“The west is the best Get here and we’ll do the rest” – The Doors, The End (1967) Jim Morrison couldn’t have foreseen that those words...

What is Neocolonialism? Neocolonialism involves the use of economic, political or cultural pressures to influence other countries,...

As the panic wanes, many are becoming critical of the strict restrictions governments imposed this spring to slow the spread of...

“It was like driving through hell,” was one of the reactions after a midnight evacuation last week in the state of Oregon. After looking...

Faye Simanjuntak is an 18-year-old Indonesian human rights activist and founder of Rumah Faye, a non-profit which helps trafficked,...

The Republican National Convention, which took place during the last week of August, showed that the race for the 2020 presidential...

Before iPhones, there was the secret police. Before hashtags, there was pointing fingers. Instead of knocking on doors now, we use...

The economic contraction in the second quarter of 2020 was disastrous for the EU. Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU, reports...

The now infamous COVID-19 virus is an infectious respiratory disease caused by a new strain of coronavirus that causes illness in humans....

Title: Mr. Two Bomb Writer: William Coles Year of publication: 2010 Review: As American bombers drop the first ever nuclear bomb onto...

The energy sector is facing challenging times in which it has to balance short-term returns with its long-term license to operate. Shell,...

From the moment the first coronavirus cases where reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan, many realized that its impact on the world’s...

By now, we are all well versed in the gist of the pandemic we are currently living through. Well-versed might even be an understatement;...

The violent death of George Floyd on May 25th has led to universal protests against police violence. In contrast to other cases of deaths...

The coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent lockdown has caused a variety of problems, one of which is increasing authoritarianism. Room...

Consequences of extreme weather events such as heat and drought are disruptive to our global economy. How large these negative effects...