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Antara Haldar

Antara Haldar

Writing for PS since 2019
24 commentaries
1 videos & podcasts

Antara Haldar, Associate Professor of Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge, is a visiting faculty member at Harvard University and the principal investigator on a European Research Council grant on law and cognition.

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  1. Laying Chicago Economics to Rest
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    Laying Chicago Economics to Rest

    Sep 28, 2023 Antara Haldar looks back on 50 years of neoclassical economic orthodoxy and the damage it has wrought.

  2. After the Beijing Consensus
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    After the Beijing Consensus

    Sep 7, 2023 Antara Haldar considers the implications of China’s mounting economic problems for development theory.

  3. Which Is the Real Europe?
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    Which Is the Real Europe?

    Jul 31, 2023 Antara Haldar thinks the bloc's future hinges on a tradeoff between solidarity and economic austerity.

  4. The Supreme Court Kicks Away the Ladder
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    The Supreme Court Kicks Away the Ladder

    Jul 4, 2023 Antara Haldar laments the likely consequences of striking down race-conscious admissions at elite US universities.

  5. Revisiting the Behavioral Revolution in Economics
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    Revisiting the Behavioral Revolution in Economics

    Jun 2, 2023 Antara Haldar assesses the legacy of the intellectual challenge to the view that rational self-interest guides our actions.

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    Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks that Russia's recent meeting with North Korea was intended primarily as a warning to the South.
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    Saudi Arabia’s New Nationalism

    Bernard Haykel explains the reasoning behind the Kingdom's ongoing domestic- and foreign-policy transformation.
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    The Green Growth Mindset

    Gernot Wagner sees doctrinaire debates about capitalism as irrelevant or even deleterious to the decarbonization effort.
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    Africa Is the Future of Multilateralism

    Mark Malloch-Brown explains why the continent should be at the forefront of efforts to bring about international reforms.
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    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Yi Fuxian

    The Chinese government is very good at covering up small problems, but these often pile up into much bigger ones that can no longer be ignored. The current real-estate bubble is a case in point, casting serious doubts not just on the wisdom of past policies but also on China's long-term economic future.

    traces the long roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.
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    Industrial Policy Is Back

    From semiconductors to electric vehicles, governments are identifying the strategic industries of the future and intervening to support them – abandoning decades of neoliberal orthodoxy in the process. Are industrial policies the key to tackling twenty-first-century economic challenges or a recipe for market distortions and lower efficiency?

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    Is AI a Master or Slave?

    Joschka Fischer wonders whether humanity can even hope to maintain control in an era of “mega-crisis.”
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    Laying Chicago Economics to Rest

    Antara Haldar

    From breakthroughs in behavioral economics to mounting evidence in the real world, there is good reason to think that the economic orthodoxy of the past 50 years now has one foot in the grave. The question is whether the mainstream economics profession has gotten the memo.

    looks back on 50 years of neoclassical economic orthodoxy and the damage it has wrought.
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    America’s Broken Civic Bargain

    J. Bradford DeLong worries that Republicans have abandoned one of the core principles that sustains a democracy over time.

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