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  1. PS Commentators’ Predictions for 2023
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    PS Commentators’ Predictions for 2023

    Dec 30, 2022 PS editors asked commentators to identify national and global trends to look out for in the coming year.

  2. PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2022
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    PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2022

    Dec 16, 2022 PS editors ask Project Syndicate contributors to select the book that resonated with them the most over the past year.

  3. Debate: Galbraith vs. Furman on Inflation
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    Debate: Galbraith vs. Furman on Inflation

    Aug 5, 2022 PS editors feature opposing perspectives on what has become the year’s biggest economic-policy challenge.

  4. PS Commentators Explain the Ukraine War's Fallout
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    PS Commentators Explain the Ukraine War's Fallout

    Mar 4, 2022 PS editors consider what the Ukraine conflict means for politics, markets, and economies around the world.

  5. PS Commentators' Predictions for 2022
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    PS Commentators' Predictions for 2022

    Dec 17, 2021 PS editors asked commentators to suggest national and global trends to look out for in the coming year.

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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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