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Anne-Marie Slaughter

The Coming Atlantic Century

PRINCETON – The United States is rising; Europe is stabilizing; and both are moving closer together. That was the principal message earlier …
Haruhiko Kuroda

India’s Growth Crossroads

MANILA – As the slowdown in the world’s major industrial economies drags on, growth in developing Asia is being affected. A serious burden w…
Howard Davies

Financial Regulators’ Global Variety Show

PARIS – In the early phases of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to argue that the United States’ system of regulation needed a funda…
Mahmoud Mohieldin

Getting Cities Right

WASHINGTON, DC – The developing world is experiencing rapid urbanization, with the number of city dwellers set to reach four billion in 2030…

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Ana Palacio May 16, 2013

The Importance of Doing Business

MADRID – This month, an independent review panel is expected to release its findings regarding the World Bank’s Doing Business report. Specu…
Peter Singer May 9, 2013

Why Pay More?

PRINCETON – When Radosław Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, went to Ukraine for talks last month, his Ukrainian counterparts reportedly l…
Chris Clearfield, András Tilcsik May 7, 2013

A Hacker’s Market?

NEW YORK – Never in the history of written communication could 140 characters have the impact that they can have now. Two weeks ago, after g…
Joseph E. Stiglitz May 6, 2013

Lives versus Profits

NEW YORK – The United States Supreme Court recently began deliberations in a case that highlights a deeply problematic issue concerning inte…
Harold James May 2, 2013

The New Economy of Fealty

PRINCETON – Since the 2008 financial crisis, most industrial economies have avoided anything like the collapse that occurred during the Grea…
Mark Roe Apr. 18, 2013

Apple’s Cash-Flow Problem

CAMBRIDGE – I recently examined the problem of corporate short-termism from two nonstandard angles. One was that some short-termism is sensi…
Shashi Tharoor Mar. 27, 2013

The New Delhi Consensus

NEW DELHI – One of the more remarkable (though largely unremarked) developments in recent Indian politics has been the startling shift in th…
Esther Dyson Mar. 27, 2013

Why Work at Work?

PHUKET – Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo!, recently created a fuss by issuing an edict that forbids anyone at the company to work from h…
Yu Yongding Mar. 27, 2013

The Temptation of China’s Capital Account

BEIJING – Despite fluctuations, China’s overall economic growth has been stable over the last three decades, owing not only to the economy’s…
Robert J. Shiller Mar. 20, 2013

Debt-Friendly Stimulus

NEW HAVEN – With much of the global economy apparently trapped in a long and painful austerity-induced slump, it is time to admit that the t…

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