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  1. Eric Posner

    Eric Posner

    Writing for PS since 2019
    31 Commentaries

    Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is the author of How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford University Press, 2021).

  2. Ian Bremmer

    Ian Bremmer

    Writing for PS since 2006
    30 Commentaries

    Ian Bremmer, Founder and President of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, is a member of the Executive Committee of the UN High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.

  3. Todd G. Buchholz

    Todd G. Buchholz

    Writing for PS since 2019
    16 Commentaries

    Todd G. Buchholz, a former White House director of economic policy under President George H.W. Bush and managing director of the Tiger hedge fund, is the recipient of the Harvard Department of Economics’ Allyn Young Teaching Prize. He is the author of New Ideas from Dead Economists (Plume, 2021), The Price of Prosperity (Harper, 2016), and co-author of the musical Glory Ride.

  4. Pranab Bardhan

    Pranab Bardhan

    Writing for PS since 2010
    13 Commentaries

    Pranab Bardhan, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author, most recently, of A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries (Harvard University Press, 2022).

  5. Sania Nishtar

    Sania Nishtar

    Writing for PS since 2013
    8 Commentaries

    Sania Nishtar is CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

  6. Teresa Ghilarducci

    Teresa Ghilarducci

    Writing for PS since 2018
    7 Commentaries

    Teresa Ghilarducci is Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research.

  7. Anastassia Fedyk

    Anastassia Fedyk

    Writing for PS since 2022
    7 Commentaries

    Anastassia Fedyk is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.

  8. Maurice Obstfeld

    Maurice Obstfeld

    Writing for PS since 2017
    4 Commentaries

    Maurice Obstfeld, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

  9. Alison L. LaCroix

    Alison L. LaCroix

    Writing for PS since 2022
    4 Commentaries

    Alison L. LaCroix, a former member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, is Professor of Law and an associate member of the History Department at the University of Chicago and the author of the forthcoming The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms (Yale University Press, May 2024).

  10. Rainer Kattel

    Rainer Kattel

    Writing for PS since 2021
    2 Commentaries

    Rainer Kattel is Deputy Director and Professor of Innovation and Public Governance at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

  11. Silke Bollmohr

    Silke Bollmohr

    Writing for PS since 2022
    2 Commentaries

    Silke Bollmohr, Founder of EcoTrac Consulting, is Senior Policy Adviser for Global Food Policy and Agriculture at INKOTA netzwerk.

  12. Manica Balasegaram

    Manica Balasegaram

    Writing for PS since 2023
    2 Commentaries

    Manica Balasegaram is Executive Director of the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership.

  13. Harun Warui

    Harun Warui

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Harun Warui is Project Lead of the Route to Food Initiative at the Heinrich Böll Foundation office in Nairobi.

  14. Nancy Isenberg

    Nancy Isenberg

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Nancy Isenberg, Emeritus Professor of History at Louisiana State University, is the author of Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality, and White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Penguin Books).

  15. Carolyn J. Heinrich

    Carolyn J. Heinrich

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Carolyn J. Heinrich is Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics at Vanderbilt University.

  16. Jodie Ginsberg

    Jodie Ginsberg

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Jodie Ginsberg is CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit organization working worldwide to ensure that journalists can report freely and safely.

  17. Tatyana Deryugina

    Tatyana Deryugina

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Tatyana Deryugina is Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

  18. Gaurav Dalmia

    Gaurav Dalmia

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Gaurav Dalmia is Chairman of Dalmia Group Holdings, a leading Indian investment company.

  19. Debasish Roy Chowdhury

    Debasish Roy Chowdhury

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Debasish Roy Chowdhury is the co-author (with John Keane) of To Kill A Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism (Oxford University Press, 2021).

  20. Eleanor Carter

    Eleanor Carter

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Eleanor Carter is Academic Co-Director of the Government Outcomes Lab at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government.

  1. Project Syndicate

    Trump’s Plans for the Fed Would Revive 1970s-Style Inflation

    Maurice Obstfeld

    Former US President Donald Trump, whose preference for lower interest rates and a weaker dollar was evident during his first term, is reportedly planning to override the Federal Reserve’s independence if he returns to the White House in 2025. The result would be a toxic inflationary cocktail.

    thinks the presumptive GOP nominee’s policies reflect an outdated understanding of the economy.
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    Mandela’s Heirs Face Their Biggest Election Test

    Adekeye Adebajo explains why the African National Congress could lose its 30-year monopoly on power.
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    What Explains the BJP’s Rise?

    Gaurav Dalmia

    Why are there such high expectations for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in India’s ongoing parliamentary election? Simply put, the party is far better organized than its rivals, and its leader, Narendra Modi, is undeniably the most charismatic Indian prime minister in recent memory.

    ennumerates the reasons why the ruling party has come to dominate the country’s electoral landscape.
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    Why China Provides Evidence for Optimists and Pessimists Alike

    Zhang Jun explains why rigorous, evidence-based assessments of the economy's performance can diverge sharply.
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    The Zero-Sum Logic Fueling the Rise of Germany’s Far Right

    Dalia Marin thinks that promoting economic growth remains the most effective antidote to nativist sentiments.
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    Argentina’s Inflation Paradoxes

    Andrés Velasco asks whether President Javier Milei's administration can sustain its initial economic-policy successes.
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    The Privileged Gaza Protesters

    Ian Buruma argues that fear of losing rank could be driving students to demonstrate their intersectional bona fides.
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    What Mission-Driven Government Means

    Mariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel correct common misconceptions about a particular form of state participation in the economy.
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    The Psychologist Who Convinced Economists that to Err Is Human

    Antara Haldar reflects on the pioneering work and legacy of one of the world’s most influential social scientists.

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