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Jayati Ghosh

Jayati Ghosh

Writing for PS since 2018
62 commentaries

Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is former a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism.

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  1. Building a Better SDR
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    Building a Better SDR

    May 22, 2023 Jayati Ghosh touts proposed reforms that would maximize the potential of IMF special drawing rights for poor countries.

  2. Schizophrenia at the IMF
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    Schizophrenia at the IMF

    Apr 19, 2023 Jayati Ghosh warns that the Fund’s insistence on fiscal retrenchment for developing countries ignores its own research.

  3. The High Cost of Carbon Pricing
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    The High Cost of Carbon Pricing

    Mar 16, 2023 Jayati Ghosh warns that measures to reduce imported emissions could, perversely, end up impeding global decarbonization.

  4. The Crisis of India’s Oligarchy
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    The Crisis of India’s Oligarchy

    Feb 15, 2023 Jayati Ghosh argues that the meltdown of the Adani Group exposes the flaws in the Modi government’s development strategy.

  5. Davos Man Must Pay
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    Davos Man Must Pay

    Jan 16, 2023 Jayati Ghosh calls on participants of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting to support raising taxes on the super-rich.

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    Anti-Semitism and Intersectionality

    Slavoj Žižek

    The European Jewish Association’s recent insistence on the exceptional nature of anti-Semitism raises important questions about the nature of privilege and oppression in contemporary societies. The risk is that the EJA’s conceptual framework could all too easily reproduce the very bigotry it seeks to oppose.

    sees problems with efforts to treat hatred toward Jews separately from other forms of bigotry.
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    Not Buying Central Banks’ Favorite Excuse

    Raghuram G. Rajan shows why monetary policymakers must bear some of the blame for the latest banking-sector turmoil.
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    The Lost Liberal Legal Imagination

    Nicholas Reed Langen considers the complicated legacy of a progressive jurist whom conservatives now champion.
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    Saved by the Pandemic?

    Scott Fulford explains why its successful COVID-19 stimulus could help the US forge a path to financial stability for all.
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    How Much Work Is Enough?

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Autumn McDonald explain how the pandemic raised new questions – and some very old ones – for employers and employees.
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    How the Far Left Paves the Way for the Far Right

    Andrés Velasco

    In October 2022, Chileans elected a far-left constitutional convention which produced a text so bizarrely radical that nearly two-thirds of voters rejected it. Now Chileans have elected a new Constitutional Council and put a far-right party in the driver’s seat.

    blames Chilean President Gabriel Boric's coalition for the rapid rise of far right populist José Antonio Kast.
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    Creeping Toward Dystopia

    Robert Skidelsky worries that even elected governments will appropriate emerging technologies in the name of national security.
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    The Climate Loss and Damage Fund Is Coming

    Sameh Shoukry assesses recent efforts to implement a crucial initiative agreed at last year’s UN Climate Change Conference.
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    China’s Youth Unemployment Problem

    Nancy Qian warns that diminishing opportunities for new graduates will have profound long-run macroeconomic implications.

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