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Anu Bradford

Anu Bradford

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Anu Bradford, Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia Law School, is the author of the forthcoming Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology (Oxford University Press, 2023).

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  1. Whose AI Revolution?
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    Whose AI Revolution?

    Sep 1, 2023 Anu Bradford refutes the argument that democratic governments cannot regulate artificial intelligence effectively.

  2. Anu Bradford on Big Tech, AI, digital regulation, and more
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    Anu Bradford on Big Tech, AI, digital regulation, and more

    Jun 27, 2023 Anu Bradford highlights barriers to US tech regulation, explains why effective implementation of the EU’s AI Act is vital, shows how China is expanding its digital footprint globally, and more.

  3. A Reckoning for Big Tech?
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    A Reckoning for Big Tech?

    Dec 4, 2021 Anu Bradford charts the emergence of a global consensus in favor of regulatory action to rein in the industry's power.

  4. Europe’s Digital Future
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    Europe’s Digital Future

    May 21, 2021 Margrethe Vestager interviewed by Anu Bradford on the thinking behind the European Union's latest wave of digital regulations, and what comes next.

  5. The Brussels Effect on Sustainable Finance
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    The Brussels Effect on Sustainable Finance

    Apr 26, 2021 Kalin Anev Janse & Anu Bradford predict that a new European Union taxonomy for green investment will become a global standard.

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    Democracies Are Not “Backsliding”

    Jan-Werner Mueller thinks the language commonly used to describe the shift toward authoritarianism is hampering solutions.
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    Christine Lagarde’s Gifts to Populists

    Yanis Varoufakis worries that the European Central Bank's blunders have revived the far right's political fortunes.
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    Bridging the Climate-Development Gap

    Dani Rodrik & Ishac Diwan explain how to free up fiscal space for sustainable development in many low- and middle-income countries.
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    Lower Transaction Costs for Greater Innovation

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng highlight the link between access to global markets and investment in research and development.
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    Ashoka Mody on Indian corruption, growth, jobs, and more

    Ashoka Mody explains the roots of the lack of accountability in India, highlights shortcomings in human capital and gender equality, casts doubt on the country’s ability to assume a Chinese-style role in manufacturing, and more.
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    Why India’s Women Are More Vulnerable to Disasters

    Joyita Roy Chowdhury & Prarthna Agarwal Goel call attention to gender inequalities that exacerbate the effects of floods and other natural catastrophes.
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    Europe in the Age of Industrial Policy

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    While China and the US take advantage of scale to pursue large-scale investment in critical sectors, the EU struggles to follow suit, owing to its decentralized fiscal structures and rules limiting government subsidies to industry. A new EU-level investment program is urgently needed.

    advocates a federal investment program, funded by EU sovereign-debt issuance and administered centrally.
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    Fixing Global Governance

    Gordon Brown explains how to make the G20 and the Bretton Woods institutions fit for purpose once again.
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    The EU Needs Fiscal Union

    Lucrezia Reichlin laments the pro-cyclical bent of the European Commission’s proposed reforms to fiscal rules.

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