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Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is the author of How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford University Press, 2021).

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  1. Banning Trump
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    Banning Trump

    Sep 15, 2023 Eric Posner sees problems with using the Fourteenth Amendment to disqualify the former president from the ballot in 2024.

  2. The Politics of the Trump Trials
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    The Politics of the Trump Trials

    Aug 9, 2023 Eric Posner offers a preview of the political, partisan, and procedural factors that will matter most.

  3. The Trump Indictment and America’s Political Order
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    The Trump Indictment and America’s Political Order

    Jun 14, 2023 Eric Posner considers the deeper structural causes and likely consequences of prosecuting a former president.

  4. Facebook's Foreign Disasters
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    Facebook's Foreign Disasters

    Nov 5, 2021 Eric Posner thinks US policymakers should consider reforms to rein in the company in countries that can't do it themselves.

  5. The Justices Doth Protest Too Much
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    The Justices Doth Protest Too Much

    Oct 7, 2021 Eric Posner thinks US Supreme Court justices should avoid mounting populist defenses against populist attacks.

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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

    Michael Spence

    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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    The Roots of the Global Water Crisis

    Joshua Castellino explains why overhauling the current economic paradigm is crucial for preserving Earth’s natural systems.

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