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    Rough Justice for Trump

    Eric Posner

    Following Donald Trump’s conviction in a Manhattan courtroom, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board worries that the successful prosecution of a former president will usher in “a new and destabilizing era of American politics.” But that era already began in 2016, and the blame for it lies squarely with Trump himself.

     thinks the Manhattan jury’s guilty verdict is the best that can be hoped for, under the circumstances.
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    China’s Economy Cannot Export Its Problems Away

    Alicia García-Herrero & Alessio Terzi explain why the current growth strategy will inevitably fail to address the roots of the economy’s problems.
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    Why Republicans Go Crawling Back to Donald Trump

    Reed Galen sees the fecklessness of figures like William Barr as proof of the sorry state of the American political class.
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    The Danger of Premature ECB Rate Cuts

    Axel A. Weber warns that inviting renewed persistent inflation would be much worse than keeping monetary policy too tight.
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    The Right Way to Regulate AI

    Joshua Gans argues that the key is to identify and reverse the technology’s unwelcome consequences soon after they appear.
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    Still Haunted by the Washington Consensus

    Antara Haldar thinks the old one-size-fits-all model is still causing problems, despite having been discredited.
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    Britain’s Make-or-Break Election

    Chris Patten laments the absence of responsible leaders capable of addressing the country’s many daunting challenges.
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    Restoring Africa’s Culture and Philosophy Is the Key to Development

    Hippolyte Fofack shows how the lack of a collective consciousness has reduced most governments to managing crisis after crisis.
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    Don’t Believe the AI Hype

    Daron Acemoglu finds nothing to support widely cited assessments of the technology’s near-term potential.
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    Whom Will America Elect?

    Gary Gerstle explains why the rematch between Donald Trump and Joe Biden has turned out to be a close contest.
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  1. Rough Justice for Trump
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    Rough Justice for Trump

    May 31, 2024 Eric Posner thinks the Manhattan jury’s guilty verdict is the best that can be hoped for, under the circumstances.

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    Still Haunted by the Washington Consensus

    May 31, 2024 Antara Haldar thinks the old one-size-fits-all model is still causing problems, despite having been discredited.

  3. The Right Way to Regulate AI
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    The Right Way to Regulate AI

    May 31, 2024 Joshua Gans argues that the key is to identify and reverse the technology’s unwelcome consequences soon after they appear.

  4. Restoring Africa’s Culture and Philosophy Is the Key to Development
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    Restoring Africa’s Culture and Philosophy Is the Key to Development

    May 31, 2024 Hippolyte Fofack shows how the lack of a collective consciousness has reduced most governments to managing crisis after crisis.

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    A Plea for Political Economy

    May 31, 2024 Kaushik Basu thinks understanding recent technological advances requires economists to revive an old tradition.

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    China’s Economy Cannot Export Its Problems Away

    Alicia García-Herrero & Alessio Terzi explain why the current growth strategy will inevitably fail to address the roots of the economy’s problems.
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    Raghuram G. Rajan and Rohit Lamba on Indian job creation, industrial policy, democracy, and more

    Raghuram G. Rajan & Rohit Lamba argue that India must place the highest priority on creating and owning intellectual property, advocate an alternative to interventionist industrial policies like subsidies, call for the decentralization of Indian governance at every level, and more.
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    The Indian Election and the Country’s Economic Future

    Raghuram G. Rajan worries that the country will squander its massive potential by trying to emulate China's growth strategy.
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    The Rise of Mesoeconomics

    William H. Janeway explains how a long-neglected field of economic study can be applied to today's most pressing policy challenges.
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    Adekeye Adebajo on the Non-Aligned Movement, United Nations peacekeeping, African institution-building, and more

    Adekeye Adebajo argues that Israel’s war in Gaza is accelerating the trend toward global apartheid, highlights the strengths and weaknesses of United Nations peacekeeping missions, criticizes the militarization of US engagement with Africa, and more.
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    How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?

    Yuen Yuen Ang explains how corruption both drove the country's GDP growth and sowed the seeds for its current economic problems.

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    How Europe Can Get the Green Deal Done

    Simone Tagliapietra proposes EU-level measures that would help offset the negative distributional effects of climate policy.
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    How G7 Leaders Can Unlock Financing for Africa

    William Ruto urges wealthy countries to help bring the global financial system into line with the developing world's needs.
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