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Daniel Litvin is Senior Adviser to the executive committee of ERM, the global sustainability consultancy, and a visiting senior fellow at the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute. He is also Founder of Critical Resource, which advises energy and resource companies on sustainability and geopolitical risk, and the author of Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest, and Corporate Responsibility (Texere, 2004).

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  1. The Next Global Resource Crisis
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    The Next Global Resource Crisis

    Nov 3, 2022 Daniel Litvin asks how the West can avoid dependence on China for the minerals on which the clean-energy transition depends.

  2. The Unsustainable Sustainable Investing Boom
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    The Unsustainable Sustainable Investing Boom

    Oct 4, 2019 Daniel Litvin fears that a movement promoting more enlightened financial capitalism is starting to exhibit some familiar flaws.

  3. Storm Warning for the Fossil-Fuel Industry
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    Storm Warning for the Fossil-Fuel Industry

    Sep 26, 2018 Daniel Litvin explains that after a year of extreme weather events, the political pressure on oil and gas producers is likely to grow.

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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

     predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Will the China hawks in Donald Trump’s administration railroad him into a confrontation that transcends tariffs and embraces financial sanctions of the type the US and the European Union imposed on Russia? If they do, China's leaders will have to decide whether to decouple from the dollar-based international monetary system.

     thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.

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