The term 'end-to-end' has become a familiar characterization of the architecture of the Internet, not only in engineering discourse, but in contexts as varied as political manifestos, commercial promotions, and legal arguments. Its ubiquity and opacity cloaks the complexity of the technology it...

Traditionally clustered around one leading "hegemonic" world currency, with the introduction of the euro the international monetary regime might become a "symmetric" dipolar system. This fundamental change would come at a time of already considerable uncertainty when, after the Asian, Russian...

The health crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic that broke out in early 2020 in most economies of the world has forced measures to be taken that have had the effect of closing economic activities to varying degrees. In order to counteract the negative economic effects determined by the...