Yves Daccord, a co-founder of Edgelands Institute and a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, is a former director general of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
From cutting taxes to raising tariffs to eroding central-bank independence, US President-elect Donald Trump has made a wide range of economic promises, many of which threaten to blow up the deficit and fuel inflation. But powerful institutional, political, and economic constraints, together with Trump’s capriciousness, have spurred disagreement about how worried we should be.
