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Philippe Aghion

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Philippe Aghion is a professor at the College de France, INSEAD, and the London School of Economics.

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  1. What AI Means for Growth and Jobs
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    What AI Means for Growth and Jobs

    Jan 14, 2025 Philippe Aghion, et al. think the technology has great potential to boost productivity without harming employment.

  2. A Weak French Government’s Fiscal Reckoning
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    A Weak French Government’s Fiscal Reckoning

    Oct 31, 2024 Philippe Aghion & Bénédicte Berner warns that the absence of a parliamentary majority is likely to impede efforts to restore sustainable growth.

  3. Can Europe Create an Innovation Economy?
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    Can Europe Create an Innovation Economy?

    Oct 7, 2024 Philippe Aghion, et al. explain what EU member states must do to stop falling further behind the United States economically.

  4. The Keys to Inclusive Growth
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    The Keys to Inclusive Growth

    Nov 25, 2021 Philippe Aghion & Aymann Mhammedi advocate two policies that can help spur a dynamic and equitable economic recovery.

  5. Macron’s Reform Train Will Not Be Derailed
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    Macron’s Reform Train Will Not Be Derailed

    May 8, 2018 Philippe Aghion & Bénédicte Berner say that France's railway strikes are a crucial test of the French president's credibility as a reformer.

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    Ensuring Europe’s Supply of Critical Minerals

    Rüya Perincek & Andreas Goldthau call for coordinated funding, resource diplomacy, and secondary material partnerships to boost recycling.
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    Readying the Resistance, Again

    Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca

    The United States is not a monarchy, but a federal republic. States and cities controlled by Democrats represent half the country, and they can resist Donald Trump’s overreach by using the tools of progressive federalism, many of which were sharpened during his first administration.

     see Democrat-controlled states as a potential check on Donald Trump’s far-right agenda.
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    Russia’s Nostalgia Machine

    Nina L. Khrushcheva explores how the Kremlin relies on an idealized version of the past to comfort – and subdue – the public.
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    The Trade Shifts Redefining Economic Development

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg & Michele Ruta consider the long-term implications of three major trends that could reshape globalization.
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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

     predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.

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