This week's quotes from "Sovereign Economics".
"The question is whether a person remains a participant in the thinking process or becomes a consumer of ready-made answers", Alexander Spanov in his author's column about the school education system in the age of neural networks.
"If the problems of coordination and initial investments are not resolved, the potential for cooperation risks remaining mainly in statements and plans," Andrei Baklanov in his author's column on Russian-African cooperation.
"Receiving money in a Russian account does not mean selling it", Yaroslav Kabakov in his column about the situation with the return of export money to Russia.
"The point is not to attract investment resources from consumers through unreasonable payments, but to make investments in electricity networks economically profitable for them", Valery Zhicharev in his author's column on the state of electricity network infrastructure.
"If it is not known in advance what issue needs to be resolved and how the conversation should end, the meeting easily turns into calendar noise", Natalia Kartsheva in her column about the importance of the right approach to meetings.