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Jeffrey Frankel

Jeffrey Frankel

Writing for PS since 2000
199 commentaries
2 videos & podcasts

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Jeffrey Frankel, Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University, previously served as a member of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers. He is a research associate at the US National Bureau of Economic Research.

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  1. Debt Restructuring for Commodity Exporters
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    Debt Restructuring for Commodity Exporters

    Apr 25, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel proposes a mechanism that would allow indebted governments to hedge against negative price shocks.

  2. Fifty Years of Floating Currencies
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    Fifty Years of Floating Currencies

    Mar 20, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel explains why the shift toward exchange-rate flexibility after 1973 was not a policy failure, as many believed.

  3. The Crusade to Ban ESG Makes No Sense
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    The Crusade to Ban ESG Makes No Sense

    Feb 24, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel explains why US Republicans' attack on “woke capital” is misguided, dangerous, and ideologically incoherent.

  4. Why This Debt-Ceiling Fight Is Different
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    Why This Debt-Ceiling Fight Is Different

    Jan 19, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel warns that the current partisan standoff in Washington may not end with a last-minute compromise.

  5. Is a Global Recession Really Around the Corner?
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    Is a Global Recession Really Around the Corner?

    Dec 22, 2022 Jeffrey Frankel explains why the looming economic downturn is not inevitable and may not be as bad as many economists expect.

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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

    Rather than seeing themselves as the arbiters of divine precepts, Supreme Court justices after World War II generally understood that constitutional jurisprudence must respond to the realities of the day. Yet today's conservatives have seized on the legacy of one of the few justices who did not.

    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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    How Can the New EU Regulation Achieve Deforestation-Free Supply Chains?

    Joann de Zegher explains why transaction-level records are crucial to curbing the destruction of the world’s forests.

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