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    Readying the Resistance, Again

    Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca

    The United States is not a monarchy, but a federal republic. States and cities controlled by Democrats represent half the country, and they can resist Donald Trump’s overreach by using the tools of progressive federalism, many of which were sharpened during his first administration.

     see Democrat-controlled states as a potential check on Donald Trump’s far-right agenda.
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    Three Reasons Why AI’s Momentum Could Stall in 2025

    Dambisa Moyo

    While artificial intelligence has the potential to drive global growth and boost productivity, the industry is grappling with mounting challenges like soaring development costs and energy requirements. Meanwhile, investors are questioning whether AI investments can deliver meaningful returns.

     identifies three negative trends that could stifle innovation and slow the pace of technological progress.
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    Russia’s Nostalgia Machine

    Nina L. Khrushcheva explores how the Kremlin relies on an idealized version of the past to comfort – and subdue – the public.
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    Decommodify Electricity

    Jayati Ghosh shows why the market cannot mobilize the clean-energy investments needed to accelerate the green transition.
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    The Trade Shifts Redefining Economic Development

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg & Michele Ruta consider the long-term implications of three major trends that could reshape globalization.
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    Solving India’s Industrialization Puzzle

    Rabah Arezki & Partha Sen ask why, unlike Bangladesh and Vietnam, manufacturing has not benefited from rising labor costs in China.
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    Our AI Near-Future

    Charles Ferguson offers a brief roadmap of how the technology will evolve and be deployed over the next few years.
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    Ensuring Europe’s Supply of Critical Minerals

    Rüya Perincek & Andreas Goldthau call for coordinated funding, resource diplomacy, and secondary material partnerships to boost recycling.
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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.
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  1. Decommodify Electricity
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    Decommodify Electricity

    Jan 23, 2025 Jayati Ghosh shows why the market cannot mobilize the clean-energy investments needed to accelerate the green transition.

  2. Three Reasons Why AI’s Momentum Could Stall in 2025
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    Three Reasons Why AI’s Momentum Could Stall in 2025

    Jan 23, 2025 Dambisa Moyo identifies three negative trends that could stifle innovation and slow the pace of technological progress.

  3. Solving India’s Industrialization Puzzle
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    Solving India’s Industrialization Puzzle

    Jan 23, 2025 Rabah Arezki & Partha Sen ask why, unlike Bangladesh and Vietnam, manufacturing has not benefited from rising labor costs in China.

  4. Ensuring Europe’s Supply of Critical Minerals
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    Ensuring Europe’s Supply of Critical Minerals

    Jan 22, 2025 Rüya Perincek & Andreas Goldthau call for coordinated funding, resource diplomacy, and secondary material partnerships to boost recycling.

  5. Readying the Resistance, Again
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    Readying the Resistance, Again

    Jan 22, 2025 Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca see Democrat-controlled states as a potential check on Donald Trump’s far-right agenda.

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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.
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    Can US Institutions Withstand Trump 2.0?

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    Daron Acemoglu, Bruce Ackerman, Aziz Huq, Alison L. LaCroix, Richard K. Sherwin

    While some observers doubt that US President-elect Donald Trump poses a grave threat to US democracy, others are bracing themselves for the destruction of the country’s constitutional order. With Trump’s inauguration just around the corner, we asked PS commentators how vulnerable US institutions really are.

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    Ricardo Hausmann on immigration, climate finance, economic complexity, and more

    Ricardo Hausmann urges the US to issue more H1-B visas, argues that Europe must become a military superpower in its own right, applies the “growth diagnostics” framework to Venezuela, and more.
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    The Truth About Migration

    Ian Goldin warns that stricter border controls often exacerbate the very problems they aim to solve.
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    What Will Trump Do to the US Economy?

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    PS editors , Joseph E. Stiglitz , Kenneth Rogoff , Sylvester Eijffinger , Edin Mujagic , Nouriel Roubini , Simon Johnson

    From cutting taxes to raising tariffs to eroding central-bank independence, US President-elect Donald Trump has made a wide range of economic promises, many of which threaten to blow up the deficit and fuel inflation. But powerful institutional, political, and economic constraints, together with Trump’s capriciousness, have spurred disagreement about how worried we should be.

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    Our AI Near-Future

    Charles Ferguson offers a brief roadmap of how the technology will evolve and be deployed over the next few years.

The world’s diplomatic, political, and economic divisions continue to harden – both between countries and within them. Whereas 2022 and 2023 featured a war of attrition in Ukraine, we have since entered a broader world of attrition, with zero-sum conflicts multiplying across the board.

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    Ensuring Europe’s Supply of Critical Minerals

    Rüya Perincek & Andreas Goldthau call for coordinated funding, resource diplomacy, and secondary material partnerships to boost recycling.
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    The Climate Policy Pendulum

    Gernot Wagner notes that green technologies retain their many advantages, regardless of national political developments.
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    What Climate Justice Means for Latin America and the Caribbean

    Thiago Barral & Woochong Um urge policymakers to work with key stakeholders to accelerate the uptake of renewables.

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  1. Jayati Ghosh Decommodify Electricity
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  3. Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, et al. The Trade Shifts Redefining Economic Development
  4. Yanis Varoufakis China’s Trump Dilemma

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  2. Nina L. Khrushcheva Russia’s Nostalgia Machine
  3. Joschka Fischer Trump at the Gates
  4. Joseph E. Stiglitz The End of Progress?

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  4. Kweilin Ellingrud, et al. Subsistence Is Not Enough

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  2. Maya Delaney, et al. Turning the Financial Tide for Small Island States
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  1. Dambisa Moyo Three Reasons Why AI’s Momentum Could Stall in 2025
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  3. Robin Berjon Social Media as It Should Be
  4. Yana Gevorgyan AI Alone Won’t Save the Planet

  1. Slavoj Žižek Fundamentalist Perverts
  2. Ian Buruma Ukraine’s Existential Culture War
  3. Helen Prejean An Injustice That Biden Can Still Set Right
  4. Peter Singer Australia’s Great Social-Media Experiment

Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

  1. Pascal Lamy, et al. The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap
  2. Hippolyte Fofack Trump Can’t Stop De-Dollarization
  3. Adekeye Adebajo What Trump’s Return Means for Africa

Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility from illiberal and autocratic regimes, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey,…

  1. Katrin Kivi The Case for Press Freedom Just Got Stronger
  2. Geoff Mulgan The Right to Truth
  3. Nishant Lalwani, et al. As Disinformation Thrives, Democracy Dies

As the COVID-19 crisis escalates, PS commentators assess its implications for the economy, propose policy responses, and consider what might – and sho…

  1. Brahma Chellaney Will Trump Crack the Mystery of COVID’s Origin?
  2. Antara Haldar COVID’s Lessons Have All Been Forgotten
  3. Gro Harlem Brundtland Recommitting to Pandemic Preparedness