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Edoardo Campanella

Edoardo Campanella

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Edoardo Campanella, Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, is co-author (with Marta Dassù) of Anglo Nostalgia: The Politics of Emotion in a Fractured West (Oxford University Press, 2019).

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  1. The US Election and the Crisis of Whiteness
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    The US Election and the Crisis of Whiteness

    Oct 24, 2024 Edoardo Campanella sees long-term demographic trends driving the country’s increasingly divisive politics.

  2. Venice’s Beauty Curse
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    Venice’s Beauty Curse

    Aug 26, 2024 Edoardo Campanella marvels at how an extractive tourism industry has crowded out investments in the iconic city’s future.

  3. Which AI Risks Matter?
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    Which AI Risks Matter?

    Feb 23, 2024 Edoardo Campanella considers three leading experts’ assessments of the technology’s future capabilities and their implications.

  4. Economic Self-Reliance Is a Dangerous Delusion
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    Economic Self-Reliance Is a Dangerous Delusion

    Jan 17, 2024 Edoardo Campanella thinks the push for inward-looking policies will inevitably lead to more global instability and fragmentation.

  5. Managing the AI Backlash
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    Managing the AI Backlash

    Aug 15, 2023 Edoardo Campanella thinks the growing resistance to automation could mirror the practices of the pre-industrial craft guilds.

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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