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Gernot Wagner

Gernot Wagner

Writing for PS since 2016
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Gernot Wagner, a climate economist at Columbia Business School, is the author, most recently, of Geoengineering: The Gamble (Polity, 2021).

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  1. The Green Growth Mindset
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    The Green Growth Mindset

    Sep 29, 2023 Gernot Wagner sees doctrinaire debates about capitalism as irrelevant or even deleterious to the decarbonization effort.

  2. Carbon Capture and Delay
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    Carbon Capture and Delay

    Aug 10, 2023 Gernot Wagner worries that new federal rules in the United States will unwittingly extend the life of existing power plants.

  3. What the Climate Fight Is Really About
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    What the Climate Fight Is Really About

    Jul 17, 2023 Gernot Wagner observes that the main issue is not just cutting emissions but reducing costly uncertainties.

  4. How to Think About Climate-Tech Solutions
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    How to Think About Climate-Tech Solutions

    Jun 7, 2023 Gernot Wagner offers lessons for navigating a field that is fraught with hype, unintended consequences, and other pitfalls.

  5. Will the Banking Busts Hurt Clean Tech?
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    Will the Banking Busts Hurt Clean Tech?

    Apr 17, 2023 Gernot Wagner considers how the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank will affect the global race to achieve net-zero emissions.

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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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