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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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    Countering Trump’s Politics of Fear

    Koichi Hamada calls for a new set of policies that responds to, rather than dismisses, US voters’ legitimate fears.
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    Where Are the Democrats?

    Reed Galen lambasts the party for sitting by and watching America implode, in the misguided hope of winning the midterms.
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    Signs of a US Recession

    Dambisa Moyo catalogues several indicators suggesting that the world's largest economy is headed for a slump.
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    Trump’s Trade War

    Less than two months into his second presidency, Donald Trump has imposed sweeping tariffs on America’s three largest trading partners, with much more to come. This strategy not only lacks any credible theoretical foundations; it is putting the US on a path toward irrevocable economic and geopolitical decline.

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    Why Frugal AI Alone Won’t Fix AI’s Energy Problem

    Boris Ruf explains why shifting the responsibility for reducing AI’s carbon footprint to end users is counterproductive.
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    The Global South’s Path to Economic Resilience

    Anwar Ibrahim

    Today's profound global uncertainty is not some accident of history or consequence of values-free technologies. Rather, it reflects the will of rival great powers that continue to ignore the seminal economic and social changes underway in other parts of the world.

    explains how Malaysia and other middle powers are navigating increasingly uncertain geopolitical terrain.
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    America’s “HIP” Economy

    Todd G. Buchholz sees developments and breakthroughs in health, information, and power as grounds for optimism.
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    Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

    Andrés Velasco reflects on the tragic fate of the country that took him in as a teenage refugee from Augusto Pinochet's Chile.
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    The Global Divide Over the Ukraine War

    Brahma Chellaney urges all parties to adopt a realistic approach to a deadlocked conflict and negotiate accordingly.

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