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    A Weak French Government’s Fiscal Reckoning

    Philippe Aghion & Bénédicte Berner

    Moody’s recent decision to downgrade France’s credit outlook underscores the urgent need to pass a budget that tackles the ballooning deficit. But without a parliamentary majority, Prime Minister Michel Barnier will have to overcome resistance from the left, the right, and within his own centrist coalition.

    warns that the absence of a parliamentary majority is likely to impede efforts to restore sustainable growth.
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    The US Election and America’s Future

    Featured in this Big Picture

    PS editors, Nouriel Roubini, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nina L. Khrushcheva, Edoardo Campanella, Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Huq, John Mark Hansen, Reed Galen

    From the economy to foreign policy to democratic institutions, the two US presidential candidates, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, promise to pursue radically different agendas, reflecting sharply diverging visions for the United States and the world. Why is the race so nail-bitingly close, and how might the outcome change America?

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    How Antitrust Can Advance Kamala Harris’s Small-Business Agenda

    Sandeep Vaheesan defends collective bargaining by independent firms seeking leverage over powerful corporations.
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    The Spirit of Brexit Has Infected the EU

    Yanis Varoufakis asks why European leaders today sound like the British leaders they wanted to punish just a few years ago.
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    Political Protest and the University

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr. thinks the 1960s have a lot to teach university leaders about today’s campus protests.
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    Why Is the US Presidential Race Even Close?

    John Mark Hansen shows that the election is historically typical, except in one fundamental respect.
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    Unlocking AI-Powered Learning

    Justina Nixon-Saintil foresees the technology enhancing student learning and creating new pathways to rewarding careers.
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    The Chip War Turns Two

    Keun Lee assesses US efforts to achieve microchip self-sufficiency and impede China’s effort to do the same.
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    Will the IMF Survive to 100?

    Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr. & Robert H. Wade propose incremental changes to keep developing and emerging economies on board and engaged.
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  1. 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.

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    The Chip War Turns Two

    Oct 31, 2024 Keun Lee assesses US efforts to achieve microchip self-sufficiency and impede China’s effort to do the same.

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    Political Protest and the University

    Oct 31, 2024 Joseph S. Nye, Jr. thinks the 1960s have a lot to teach university leaders about today’s campus protests.

  4. How Antitrust Can Advance Kamala Harris’s Small-Business Agenda
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    How Antitrust Can Advance Kamala Harris’s Small-Business Agenda

    Oct 31, 2024 Sandeep Vaheesan defends collective bargaining by independent firms seeking leverage over powerful corporations.

  5. Why Is the US Presidential Race Even Close?
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    Why Is the US Presidential Race Even Close?

    Oct 31, 2024 John Mark Hansen shows that the election is historically typical, except in one fundamental respect.

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    Will the IMF Survive to 100?

    Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr. & Robert H. Wade propose incremental changes to keep developing and emerging economies on board and engaged.
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    Diane Coyle on economic progress, tech monopolies, artificial intelligence, and more

    Diane Coyle advocates a new public philosophy that rejects viewing “government” and “market” as opposites, explains why time-use data must shape technological development, warns that policymakers are devising AI regulation in a thick conceptual fog, and more.
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    Toward a Fifth World Order

    Gordon Brown & Mohamed A. El-Erian explain why multilateral institutions urgently need to be reformed, and why the G20 is the right forum for it.
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    The Brutes’ New Suits

    James Livingston asks why so many observers now believe that institutions central to modern economies are running a con game.
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    America’s Broken Constitution

    Nicholas Reed Langen sees the country’s politicized Supreme Court as the biggest obstacle to addressing many other problems.
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    Marietje Schaake on our tech overlords, antitrust, data protection, and more

    Marietje Schaake warns that Big Tech’s outsize influence threatens democracy, suggests what Western leaders can learn from Chinese technology governance, urges governments to use public procurement to influence the trajectory of digital technology, and more.

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    Where Financial Innovation Meets Sustainable Development

    Jordan Schwartz explains why new instruments must be standardized and integrated into developing countries’ economic policies.
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    Charting a Course for Coastal Resilience

    Karen Sack urges policymakers and business leaders to take the climate and biodiversity crises littorally.
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    Making Biodiversity Credits Work

    Almir Narayamoga Suruí & Simon Zadek suggest how to realize the potential of this innovative mechanism for financing nature conservation.

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  1. Philippe Aghion, et al. A Weak French Government’s Fiscal Reckoning
  2. Keun Lee The Chip War Turns Two
  3. Sandeep Vaheesan How Antitrust Can Advance Kamala Harris’s Small-Business Agenda
  4. Robert Z. Lawrence No President Can Revive US Manufacturing Employment

  1. John Mark Hansen Why Is the US Presidential Race Even Close?
  2. Yanis Varoufakis The Spirit of Brexit Has Infected the EU
  3. Salome Samadashvili The End of Georgia’s European Dream?
  4. Gabija Grigaitė-Daugirdė, et al. Belarus in the Dock

  1. Axel van Trotsenburg Prosperity Requires a Healthy Planet
  2. Kingsley Moghalu Fixing Africa’s Governance Crisis Must Come First
  3. Mariana Chilton The Destructive Legacy of Mass Starvation
  4. Gordon Brown Investing in the WHO Will Yield Outsize Returns

  1. Jordan Schwartz Where Financial Innovation Meets Sustainable Development
  2. Karen Sack Charting a Course for Coastal Resilience
  3. Almir Narayamoga Suruí, et al. Making Biodiversity Credits Work
  4. Hailemariam Desalegn The Biodiversity Crisis Is a Security Crisis

  1. Lars Frølund, et al. Can Europe Really Build Its Own DARPA?
  2. Katharina Pistor Outsourcing Our Future to For-Profit AI
  3. Ian Bremmer, et al. AI Is a Rare Bright Spot for Global Governance
  4. Philippe Aghion, et al. Can Europe Create an Innovation Economy?

  1. Joseph S. Nye, Jr. Political Protest and the University
  2. Michael Ignatieff Ukraine’s Post-Colonial Future
  3. Katrin Kivi The Case for Press Freedom Just Got Stronger
  4. Justina Nixon-Saintil Unlocking AI-Powered Learning

Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

  1. Kingsley Moghalu Fixing Africa’s Governance Crisis Must Come First
  2. Bogolo Kenewendo, et al. Africa’s Green Future Starts with Debt Relief
  3. Kenneth Rogoff Rethinking Foreign Funding for Africa

Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility from illiberal and autocratic regimes, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey,…

  1. Katrin Kivi The Case for Press Freedom Just Got Stronger
  2. Geoff Mulgan The Right to Truth
  3. Nishant Lalwani, et al. As Disinformation Thrives, Democracy Dies

As the COVID-19 crisis escalates, PS commentators assess its implications for the economy, propose policy responses, and consider what might – and sho…

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  2. Winnie Byanyima, et al. How to Protect the World from the Next Pandemic
  3. Tom Achoki, et al. Preparing Now for the Next Disease X