Project Syndicate

Deterrence in Cyberspace

2019-06-12

Understanding deterrence in cyberspace is often difficult, because our minds remain captured by an image of deterrence shaped by the Cold War

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America’s Illusions of Growth

2019-05-20

Many commentators have interpreted buoyant GDP and unemployment data in the United States as vindicating President Donald Trump’s economic policies, and some suggest that his re-election chances have improved as a result...

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Cities for the People

2019-04-12

Overcrowded, dirty, and disorderly cities undermine residents’ health as much as their happiness. With urbanization occurring at an unprecedented rate

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A Battle for India’s Soul

2019-04-08

Every Indian general election beats its predecessor’s record to become the largest in world history. This time, Indian voters must decide whether they want an inclusive country that embodies hope, or a divided one that promotes fear.

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Elizabeth Warren’s Big Ideas on Big Tech

2019-04-03

The debate about how to regulate the tech sector is eerily reminiscent of the debate over financial regulation in the early 2000s

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What if Zero Interest Rates Are the New Normal?

2019-04-01

The valid insight behind "modern monetary theory" – that governments and central banks together can always create nominal demand

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Truly Taking Back Control

2019-03-27

When people are more able to shape their own futures, they are less likely to be convinced that others are to blame for their plight.

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Modern Monetary Realism

2019-03-26

Is Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) a potential boon to economic policymakers, or, as Harvard’s Kenneth Rogoff recently argued

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Stagnant Capitalism

2019-03-25

A decade after the 2008 financial crisis, faith in markets self-regulating abilities once again lies in tatters. There simply is no single real interest rate that would spur investors to funnel all existing savings

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Understanding the Fed’s Dovish Turn

2019-03-20

Over the past few years, the US Federal Reserve has been ahead of other major central banks in normalizing monetary policy.

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Journalism’s Risky Tech Attraction

2019-03-18

There is nothing wrong with using technology to solve problems, including those created by technology, or to give a company a competitive edge.

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What’s Wrong with Contemporary Capitalism?

2019-03-16

suddenly, capitalism is visibly sick. The virus of socialism has reemerged and is infecting the young once more

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The Case for a Bold Economics

2019-03-13

Although economists are well positioned to imagine new institutional arrangements, their habit of thinking at the margin and sticking close to the evidence at hand encourages an aversion to radical change...

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Licking the Boot that Kicks You

2019-03-11

Many people cannot grasp how anyone could possibly support a coarse, narcissistic fantasist like US President Donald Trump...

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The Social Solution to Automation

2019-03-05

n our efficiency-obsessed society, new technologies are deployed with the single-minded objective of boosting productivity and eliminating the need for human labor

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Feeding the Ten Billion

2019-02-06

Our diets are becoming less healthy, and global food production is increasingly unsustainable. A new report suggests that the planet can sustainably provide a healthy diet for ten billion people in the future...

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Reimagining Davos

2019-02-03

At the recent World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, participants made the same mistake they always do

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Risks to the Global Economy in 2019

2019-01-16

Over the course of this year and next, the biggest economic risks will emerge in those areas where investors think recent patterns are unlikely to change

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The Year of Trump?

2019-01-12

Time magazine did not choose Donald Trump as its Person of the Year in 2018, but it may do so this year

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A Year to Act

2019-01-08

t has been 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and despite significant progress toward improving life expectancy and boosting incomes around the world

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AI for Human Development

2019-01-06

Technologies powered by artificial intelligence are being applied to some of the world’s most challenging human-development issues

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The World Has Failed Children in Conflict Zones

2018-12-28

This Human Rights Day (December 10) marks the 70th anniversary of the United Nations General Assemblys adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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The Big Blockchain Lie

2018-10-20

Now that cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have plummeted from last years absurdly high valuations, the techno-utopian mystique of so-called distributed-ledger technologies should be next.

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Can Turkey Rewrite the Crisis-Management Rules?

2018-08-18

Turkey is trying to rewrite the chapter on crisis management in the emerging-market playbook...

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