
An Interview with Michael Spence
Jan 5, 2021 applies his Nobel Prize-winning research to governments’ trust problem, predicts the pandemic’s likely effect on climate action, and explains how digital data can boost inclusivity.
Michael Spence, a Nobel laureate in economics, is Professor of Economics Emeritus and a former dean of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, serves on the Academic Committee at Luohan Academy, and co-chairs the Advisory Board of the Asia Global Institute. He was chairman of the independent Commission on Growth and Development, an international body that from 2006-10 analyzed opportunities for global economic growth, and is the author of The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World.
Jan 5, 2021 applies his Nobel Prize-winning research to governments’ trust problem, predicts the pandemic’s likely effect on climate action, and explains how digital data can boost inclusivity.
Dec 8, 2020 & consider options to support countries that lack the fiscal capacity to respond forcefully to the crisis.
Nov 23, 2020 & find deep and consistent partisan divisions in voting patterns at the county level.
Oct 31, 2020 & show why Joe Biden is in a far better position – at least in opinion polls – than Hillary Clinton was in 2016.
Sep 30, 2020 traces the evolution of online, data-driven markets in order to identify remaining areas of concern.
Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic and engineering an economic recovery are only two of the challenges facing new US President Joe Biden. Amid deep social divisions and the continued threat of right-wing extremist violence, Biden must also try to re-establish democratic political norms and restore trust in American leadership at home and abroad.