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Let the Banks Burn
Let the Banks Burn
Yanis Varoufakis shows why the current private system is unfixable – and why we don’t need to tolerate it anymore. -
Beyond Industrial Policy
Beyond Industrial Policy
Anne-Marie Slaughter & Elizabeth Garlow make the case for an economic strategy that prioritizes shared prosperity over competition. -
Accounting for Casino Capitalism
Accounting for Casino Capitalism
Hans-Werner Sinn draws parallels between recent bank collapses and the late-nineteenth-century “founders’ crash.” -
Where Is the Global South’s Rescue Brigade?
Where Is the Global South’s Rescue Brigade?
Vera Songwe decries the unequal responses to liquidity crises in Silicon Valley compared to the developing world. -
Who Should Be Bailed Out Next?
Who Should Be Bailed Out Next?
Simon Zadek urges rich-country governments to aid debt-distressed poor countries as urgently as they have their failing banks. -
How China Benefits from Another US Banking Crisis
How China Benefits from Another US Banking Crisis
Stephen S. Roach thinks America’s latest financial trouble will reinforce a narrative of terminal national decline. -
In Search of a New Political Economy
In Search of a New Political Economy
Daron Acemoglu identifies five questions that must be addressed to bring policymaking into the twenty-first century. -
The Population Boon
The Population Boon
Beniamino Callegari & Per Espen Stoknes correct popular myths about the threat of demographic growth to sustainable development. -
Xi Jinping’s Chinese Tragedy
Xi Jinping’s Chinese Tragedy
Orville Schell interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross about the country's increasingly worrisome trajectory, both at home and abroad. -
PS Events: What Economics is Missing
PS Events: What Economics is Missing
Our latest event, What Economics is Missing, is now live.
Click the link below for opening remarks from Dani Rodrik, followed by a discussion among Ashwini Deshpande, Raquel Fernández, Minouche Shafik, and Vera Songwe on how to achieve inclusivity in economics.
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Accounting for Casino Capitalism
Accounting for Casino Capitalism
Mar 27, 2023 Hans-Werner Sinn draws parallels between recent bank collapses and the late-nineteenth-century “founders’ crash.”
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Who Should Be Bailed Out Next?
Who Should Be Bailed Out Next?
Mar 27, 2023 Simon Zadek urges rich-country governments to aid debt-distressed poor countries as urgently as they have their failing banks.
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The Population Boon
The Population Boon
Mar 27, 2023 Beniamino Callegari & Per Espen Stoknes correct popular myths about the threat of demographic growth to sustainable development.
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Where Is the Global South’s Rescue Brigade?
Where Is the Global South’s Rescue Brigade?
Mar 27, 2023 Vera Songwe decries the unequal responses to liquidity crises in Silicon Valley compared to the developing world.
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Beyond Industrial Policy
Beyond Industrial Policy
Mar 27, 2023 Anne-Marie Slaughter & Elizabeth Garlow make the case for an economic strategy that prioritizes shared prosperity over competition.
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Xi Jinping’s Chinese Tragedy
Xi Jinping’s Chinese Tragedy
Orville Schell interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross about the country's increasingly worrisome trajectory, both at home and abroad. -
Richard Haass on Russia, Taiwan, and US democracy
Richard Haass on Russia, Taiwan, and US democracy
Richard Haass explains what caused the Ukraine war, urges the West to scrutinize its economic dependence on China, proposes ways to reverse the dangerous deterioration of democracy in America, and more. -
Revisiting America’s War of Choice in Iraq
Revisiting America’s War of Choice in Iraq
Richard Haass considers the enduring lessons from a foreign intervention that was both ill-conceived and poorly executed. -
PS Commentators Respond: Is a New Financial Crisis Underway?
PS Commentators Respond: Is a New Financial Crisis Underway?
Featured in this Big Question
Harold James, Simon Johnson, Stephen S. Roach, Kenneth Rogoff, Anne C. SibertThe US government’s pledge to do “whatever is needed” to protect the banking system after Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse last week did little to reassure markets, which have continued to slide. At a time when the US Federal Reserve is considering further interest-rate hikes to tame inflation, we asked PS commentators how bad things are likely to get, for the US and the world.
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The Sense of an Ending
The Sense of an Ending
James Livingston surveys the intellectual terrain created by the transition from capitalism as we have come to know it. -
PS Commentators Respond: Can the US Rein in Big Tech?
PS Commentators Respond: Can the US Rein in Big Tech?
Featured in this Big Question
Anu Bradford, Tim O'Reilly, Ilan Strauss, Mariana Mazzucato, Tommaso VallettiWhile the European Union has gradually tightened the screws on tech giants, America’s regulatory bark has so far been bigger than its bite. With Big Tech’s competition-crushing market power continuing to grow, we asked PS commentators why the US continues to lag, and what it would take to make real progress.

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The Water Crisis Is a Vital Investment Opportunity
The Water Crisis Is a Vital Investment Opportunity
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Waking Up to the World’s Water Crisis
Waking Up to the World’s Water Crisis
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