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Kenneth Rogoff

Writing for PS since 2002
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Kenneth Rogoff, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University and the recipient of the 2011 Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics. He is the co-author (with Carmen M. Reinhart) of This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Princeton University Press, 2011) and the author of the forthcoming book Our Dollar, Your Problem (Yale University Press, 2025).

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  1. China Can’t Spend Its Way Out of Trouble
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    China Can’t Spend Its Way Out of Trouble

    Apr 2, 2025 Kenneth Rogoff argues that the country’s problems can be traced back to its response to the 2008 financial crisis.

  2. What Trump 2.0 Means for Africa and Latin America
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    What Trump 2.0 Means for Africa and Latin America

    Mar 5, 2025 Kenneth Rogoff highlights the far-reaching implications of the new administration’s move to slash foreign-aid funding.

  3. Europe in Trump’s Crosshairs
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    Europe in Trump’s Crosshairs

    Jan 28, 2025 Kenneth Rogoff urges EU policymakers not to allow the new US administration to distract them from key policy priorities.

  4. Will Trump Fire the Fed?
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    Will Trump Fire the Fed?

    Jan 2, 2025 Kenneth Rogoff worries about the incoming US administration’s plans to weaken the central bank’s independence.

  5. Will the Second Trump Boom Go Bust?
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    Will the Second Trump Boom Go Bust?

    Dec 16, 2024 Kenneth Rogoff warns that, regardless of domestic policies, powerful global headwinds could impede US economic growth.

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    It’s Time to Abandon Trump’s Flawed Negotiation Playbook

    Michele Gelfand points out that the best dealmakers strive for win-win outcomes, not zero-sum Pyrrhic victories.
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    America’s Last Chance to Lead in Fusion Energy

    Ylli Bajraktari warns that China's domination of the sector would give it massive economic and geopolitical leverage.
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    China Can’t Spend Its Way Out of Trouble

    Kenneth Rogoff

    China’s prolonged reliance on fiscal stimulus has distorted economic incentives, fueling a housing glut, a collapse in prices, and spiraling public debt. With further stimulus off the table, the only sustainable path is for the central government to relinquish more economic power to local governments and the private sector.

     argues that the country’s problems can be traced back to its response to the 2008 financial crisis.
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    This UN Debt Initiative Is Different

    Mahmoud Mohieldin, et al. tout an Expert Group’s efforts to prevent a full-blown solvency crisis in developing countries.
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    What African Electrification Requires

    Fatih Birol & Alain Ebobissé highlight the need for greater private-sector participation to boost investments in power grids.
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    How World Order Changes

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    World order is a matter of degree: it varies over time, depending on technological, political, social, and ideological factors that can affect the global distribution of power and influence norms. It can be radically altered both by broader historical trends and by a single major power's blunders.

     examines the role of evolving power dynamics and norms in bringing about stable arrangements among states.
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    Israel’s Blind Spot

    Ian Buruma explains the lack of sympathy, even among the country’s many anti-war protesters, for Palestinian suffering.
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    Will AI Close or Widen the Development Gap?

    Shamika Sirimanne & Xiaolan Fu call for multilateral action and grassroots pressure to ensure that the technology serves all countries.
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    Don’t Let Governments Break Encryption

    Jessica Dickinson Goodman & Ezequiel Passeron Kitroser urge citizens and lawmakers to fight for the privacy that previous generations took for granted.

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