In late 2025, the technology world watched a familiar pattern repeat at a new and striking scale. Meta announced that it had acquired Manus, a Singapore-based developer of general-purpose #AI_agents, in a transaction that news outlets, citing the Wall Street Journal, valued at more than two billion United States dollars. What made the deal remarkable was not only the price tag but the speed of the rise. Manus had launched its first general-purpose agent only months earlier an

In the history of modern business, a few products are remembered less for what they were and more for what they made possible. The home version of Space Invaders, released for the Atari Video Computer System in 1980, belongs to this rare group. The original arcade game had been created by the Japanese company Taito in 1978 and had already become a worldwide phenomenon. When Atari brought it into living rooms two years later, something interesting happened: people did not only

Every day, companies make choices that shape the markets we live in. They set prices, design products, train staff, and plan advertising. Behind each of these choices is a quiet question that managers rarely say out loud: what will our competitors do in response? This single question sits at the heart of modern #strategic_thinking, and one of the most useful tools for studying it is the idea of #Nash_Equilibrium. The concept was introduced by the mathematician John Nash in th

In international trade, markets do not always operate in open, simple, and transparent ways. Some markets are highly visible, regulated, insured, and documented. Others operate in more complex spaces, where legal restrictions, sanctions, uncertainty, and commercial pressure create hidden forms of exchange. One example often discussed in recent economic debates is the so-called shadow fleet: a group of vessels that may transport restricted or difficult-to-trade products throug

I am pleased to share the academic paper “The Interplay of Economics, Education, and Management in Shaping Consumer Choices,” published in Advances in Consumer Research. The paper examines how economic factors, education, and management practices influence consumer behavior and decision-making in modern markets. Read the full paper here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebecca-Owusu/publication/399126887_Advances_in_Consumer_Research_The_Interplay_of_Economics_Education_

The history of #international_trade is not only a history of goods, routes, and markets. It is also a history of #trust, #law, #diplomacy, and #leadership. The Otrar incident, which preceded the Mongol invasion of the Khwarazmian Empire in the early thirteenth century, offers a powerful educational case for students of #business, #economics, and #strategic_studies. Otrar was an important trading city on the Syr Darya, and it became closely associated with the opening stages o

Global #debt is often discussed as if it were a single warning sign. When people hear that governments, companies, or households owe more money than before, they may quickly assume that economic collapse is near. This concern is understandable, especially after periods of financial crisis, inflation, higher interest rates, or slower growth. Yet, from an academic and economic perspective, the reality is more complex. High #global_debt does not automatically mean that a country