Tom Lee-Devlin

Sep 28, 2023 | community.thriveglobal.com | Ian Goldin |Tom Lee-Devlin

It is also time to accept that there has been a permanent and irreversible shift away from manufacturing jobs in rich countries. Even if a meaningful share of manufacturing activity is repatriated from low-cost locations to rich countries, high levels of automation mean the sector will not reclaim its historical role as a ladder of upward economic mobility for those without a higher education.

Aug 18, 2023 | aei.org | Chris Miller |Michael Bird |Tom Lee-Devlin |Alice Fulwood

When is economic decoupling not economic decoupling? When it drives your allies to tighter commercial links with your adversary. That’s the situation the US finds itself in today, when it comes to its policies directed against China. Since the Trump administration put tariffs on Chinese imports in 2018, the US has been trying to extricate itself from commercial ties with the world’s second-largest economy.

Jul 24, 2023 | theguardian.com | Ian Goldin |Tom Lee-Devlin |Joshua Riley

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Jul 3, 2023 | scotsman.com | Ian Goldin |Tom Lee-Devlin

In 2007, right about the time Steve Jobs was unveiling the iPhone, the world quietly passed a historic milestone. For the first time ever, more than half its population lived in cities, up from a mere one-twentieth two centuries before. In the years since, the global urbanisation rate has continued to rise, and is expected to reach some two-thirds by the middle of the century. Homo sapiens may have evolved on the savannah, but we have become an urban species.

Jun 29, 2023 | theguardian.com | Ian Goldin |Tom Lee-Devlin

Cities are now home to more than half of the global population, a share that will rise to two-thirds by 2050. That means the forces shaping life in cities now also shape our world as a whole. Cities throughout history have been the great incubators of human progress, through their power to bring us closer together – something we need now more than ever.