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Jun 27, 2022 Keun Lee considers what it would take for the country to leapfrog incumbents in an economically critical industry.
Keun Lee, Vice Chair of the National Economic Advisory Council for the President of South Korea, is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Seoul National University and the author of China’s Technological Leapfrogging and Economic Catch-up: A Schumpeterian Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Jun 27, 2022 Keun Lee considers what it would take for the country to leapfrog incumbents in an economically critical industry.
Apr 19, 2022 Keun Lee assesses Yoon Seok-youl's plans for addressing challenges like high housing prices and falling GDP growth.
Feb 21, 2022 Keun Lee identifies the barriers the country must overcome during the next phase of its development.
Dec 20, 2021 Keun Lee laments the financialization of Asia's economies, making them more like slow-growth, high-inequality Anglo-Saxon capitalism.
Oct 11, 2021 Keun Lee says relocation and reshoring of production can help other countries to boost investment inflows.
Some have long argued that private digital money and the technology underpinning it will revolutionize finance in the long term. But with Bitcoin plunging, stablecoins collapsing, and crypto lenders freezing withdrawals, we asked PS commentators whether the industry has a future.