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Kenneth Rogoff

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Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University and recipient of the 2011 Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics, was the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund from 2001 to 2003. He is co-author of This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Princeton University Press, 2011) and author of The Curse of Cash (Princeton University Press, 2016).

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  1. The Debt Supercycle Comes to China
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    The Debt Supercycle Comes to China

    Aug 17, 2023 Kenneth Rogoff argues that the theory seems to offer the best explanation for the Chinese economy’s current slowdown.

  2. Europe Must Lead Ukraine’s Reconstruction
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    Europe Must Lead Ukraine’s Reconstruction

    Aug 7, 2023 Kenneth Rogoff urges the continent’s governments to accept their historic responsibility to manage the postwar recovery.

  3. Rethinking Climate Finance for the Developing World
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    Rethinking Climate Finance for the Developing World

    Jun 29, 2023 Kenneth Rogoff explains how advanced economies could persuade the Global South to embrace the clean-energy transition.

  4. The US Debt Ceiling Debacle Is Not Over
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    The US Debt Ceiling Debacle Is Not Over

    May 29, 2023 Kenneth Rogoff sees little reason to believe the latest last-minute deal will be anything more than a short-lived truce.

  5. Biden’s South American Blind Spot
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    Biden’s South American Blind Spot

    May 1, 2023 Kenneth Rogoff thinks the US should be more worried than it is about China’s expanding economic footprint in the region.

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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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