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    Will Today’s Tech Wave Drown Developing Countries?

    Xiaolan Fu considers how lower-income economies can respond to the rise of technologies unsuited to their specific needs.
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    Making Bretton Woods Work for Africa

    Hippolyte Fofack envisions a reformed global financial architecture that provides equal access to long-term patient capital.
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    Which AI Risks Matter?

    Edoardo Campanella considers three leading experts’ assessments of the technology’s future capabilities and their implications.
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    What Was Capitalism?

    James Livingston asks whether those at the commanding heights of today's economy are steering us toward feudalism or fatuousness.
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    The Rise of Consumer Crypto

    Steve Kaczynski & Scott Duke Kominers detail a wide range of business uses for non-fungible tokens and other blockchain-based technologies.
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    The Fog of War Crimes

    James A. Goldston shows why the accusation of double standards has accompanied international criminal justice since its birth.
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    The Two Faces of the Euro

    Yanis Varoufakis traces the monetary union's travails to the conflicting visions of Jacques Delors and Wolfgang Schäuble.
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    China’s Long March Back to Stagnation

    Debin Ma considers the modern and ancient historical roots of the country's recent successes and failures.
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    Liberalism’s Forever Crisis

    Jan-Werner Mueller argues that some recent critiques misunderstand the liberal project and its objectives.
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    PS Commentators’ Predictions for 2024

    PS editors asked commentators to suggest national and global trends to look out for in the coming year.
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    The World Needs a Humble Approach to Central Banking

    Jacob Frenkel, et al. explain why monetary policymakers must accept a deliberately narrow mandate.
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    Market Power Is Permanent, and Technological Competition Does Not Remove It

    Mordecai Kurz shows that technological change leads not to disruption, but to deeper, more enduring forms of market power.

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