January 2018 – CESRAN International

CESRAN Blog

CESRAN International named the World’s #83 “Best Independent Think Tank”

CESRAN Int.31 January 201831 January 2018

CESRAN International is pleased to announce that it has been named the world’s number 83 “Best Independent Think Tank”. The ranking was announced in the 2017 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report...

International Economics

The “New Normal” in Cyclical Recessions

CESRAN Int.24 January 201824 January 2018

There is a ‘new normal’ in cyclical recessions, namely, that the recovery cycle is itself recessionary for the vast majority of the population, not just in periphery countries that invariably...

Europe

Europe’s illiberal states: why Hungary and Poland are turning away from constitutional democracy

CESRAN Int.8 January 20188 January 2018

Western Europe has looked on with mounting bewilderment and exasperation over the past few years at the political trajectory of Hungary, Poland and several other former communist states. Countries that,...

CESRAN Blog

The Current State of AI as We Begin 2018

CESRAN Int.1 January 20181 January 2018

Artificial intelligence (AI) states one recent article is no smarter than a six-year-old. A study that appeared last summer compared the intelligence quotient (IQ) of Google, Apple, Baidu, and Bing AI to the average human...