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Knut Anton Mork

Knut Anton Mork

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Knut Anton Mork is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

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  1. Norway Should Cede Its War Windfall to Ukraine
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    Norway Should Cede Its War Windfall to Ukraine

    Jan 30, 2025 Håvard Halland & Knut Anton Mork say that the government's justifications for its war profiteering are disingenuous and short-sighted.

  2. Norway Is a Ukraine War Profiteer
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    Norway Is a Ukraine War Profiteer

    Dec 20, 2024 Håvard Halland & Knut Anton Mork argue that the country should give its windfall gains from gas exports to those on the front lines.

  3. Norway's Sovereign Duty
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    Norway's Sovereign Duty

    Sep 17, 2021 Christiana Figueres, et al. explain how the country's massive wealth fund can be used as a powerful tool to combat climate change.

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    Trump’s Trade War Is About More Than Trade

    Nancy Qian considers the domestic and global implications of the new US administration’s tariff policies.
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    What Is MAGAnomics?

    Antara Haldar tries to make sense of the new US administration's internally contradictory economic-policy program.
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    PS Events: AI Action Summit

    PS editors present the AI Action Summit event.
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    Europe Can and Must Resist Trump

    Zaki Laïdi explains how the European Union should respond to American imperial nationalism.
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    Bending the Arc of AI Development Toward Shared Progress

    Anne Bouverot outlines the French government's objectives for the AI Action Summit in Paris.
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    Developing Countries Need a New Approach to Long-Term Financing

    Hannah Wanjie Ryder & Kate Hampton propose reforms that would facilitate low-interest lending to fund critical climate and development goals.
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    Trump’s Smoke and Mirrors

    J. Bradford DeLong

    As Americans and the rest of the world adapt to another four years of constant chaos, it will be important to remember that Donald Trump's principal purpose in issuing any pronouncement is to gain attention. Unfortunately, much of the US media is uninterested in helping the public separate signal from noise.

    upbraids US journalists for refusing to distinguish bluster from genuine policy initiatives.
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    Why Does DeepSeek Matter?

    Chinese tech startup DeepSeek’s release of a high-performance, low-cost artificial-intelligence platform has roiled financial markets and raised fundamental questions about the business models of American AI giants. Will the technology turn out to be a boon for competition in a critical industry, or should it be viewed as a geopolitical shot across the West’s bow?

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    Resisting Digital Feudalism

    Mariana Mazzucato

    Given the pace of AI development, policymakers and civil society must step in now to ensure that the next general-purpose technology serves the public interest. Otherwise, already dominant monopolists will supercharge the socially harmful digital business models they perfected over the past decade.

    calls for urgent action to shape the development of AI before it becomes another means of rent extraction.

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