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  1. Michael Spence
    Michael Spence

    Writing for PS since 2008
    161 commentaries

    Michael Spence, a Nobel laureate in economics, is Professor of Economics Emeritus and a former dean of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He is Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Senior Adviser to General Atlantic, and Chairman of the firm’s Global Growth Institute. He serves on the Academic Committee at Luohan Academy, and chairs the Advisory Board of the Asia Global Institute. He was Chairman of the independent Commission on Growth and Development, an international body that from 2006-10 analyzed opportunities for global economic growth, and is the author of The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World (Macmillan Publishers, 2012).

  2. Michael J. Boskin
    Michael J. Boskin

    Writing for PS since 2009
    87 commentaries

    Michael J. Boskin is Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He was Chairman of George H.W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1989 to 1993, and headed the so-called Boskin Commission, a congressional advisory body that highlighted errors in official US inflation estimates.

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  4. Michael R. Strain
    Michael R. Strain

    Writing for PS since 2022
    12 commentaries

    Michael R. Strain, Director of Economic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author, most recently, of The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It) (Templeton Press, 2020).

  5. Michael Chertoff
    Michael Chertoff

    Writing for PS since 2020
    2 commentaries

    Michael Chertoff, a former US secretary of homeland security, is a co-chair of the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace.

  6. Michael Chui
    Michael Chui

    Writing for PS since 2014
    5 commentaries

    Michael Chui is a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute, studying the impact of long-term technology trends.

  7. Michael Bolle
    Michael Bolle

    Writing for PS since 2010
    1 commentaries

    Michael Bolle is Director of the Berlin-based Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in European Integration.

  8. Michael Bröning
    Michael Bröning

    Writing for PS since 2008
    11 commentaries

    Michael Bröning, Director of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung office in New York, serves on the basic value commission of Germany’s Social Democratic Party and is the author, most recently, of Vom Ende der Freiheit (Dietz, 2021).

  9. Michael Biggs
    Michael Biggs

    Writing for PS since 2016
    1 commentaries

    Michael Biggs is a strategist at GAM.

  10. Michael Albertus
    Michael Albertus

    Writing for PS since 2022
    1 commentaries

    Michael Albertus is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

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    Tick TikTok Goes Globalization

    Kenneth Rogoff

    The bipartisan push to ban TikTok in the US reflects both the growing distrust of China and lawmakers’ limited understanding of the tech world. While there are legitimate national-security concerns associated with the platform, a US ban could end up accelerating deglobalization.

    thinks efforts to restrict American users’ access to the app are hypocritical and counterproductive.
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    To Reconstruct Turkey, Rebuild Its Democracy

    Daron Acemoglu & Cihat Tokgöz

    Turkey's massive death toll from the earthquakes in February attests to a much larger problem. From an overly powerful construction lobby and endemic corruption to the steady erosion of democratic institutions, it is clear that the country now needs a thorough political and economic transformation.

    think the country needs not just a new government but a broader economic and political transformation.
  3. mody28_ NOAH SEELAMAFP via Getty Images_india unemployment NOAH SEELAM/AFP via Getty Images

    India’s Boom Is a Dangerous Myth

    Ashoka Mody dismantles the hype around a rosy economic narrative that is actually becoming bleaker by the day.
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    Halting the Authoritarian Drift

    Kaushik Basu considers the dynamics that lead political leaders down the road to tyranny, paranoia, and aggression.
  5. khrushcheva165_SERGEI KARPUKHINSPUTNIKAFP via Getty Images_xiputin Sergei Karpukhin/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images

    Xi’s the Boss

    Nina L. Khrushcheva says the Chinese leader's recent visit to Moscow was intended, first and foremost, to show who is in charge.
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    Can “Cooperative Rivalry” Work?

    Jean Pisani-Ferry worries that America and China will be unable to find common ground on preserving the global commons.
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    The Fed’s Role in the Bank Failures

    Raghuram G. Rajan & Viral V. Acharya show how the US central bank's liquidity policies created the conditions for runs on uninsured deposits.
  8. velasco135_Nancy LaneMediaNews GroupBoston Herald via Getty Images_bank run Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images

    Policymakers Keep Solving the Wrong Banking Problem

    Andrés Velasco argues that recent market turmoil has revealed that the sector’s main vulnerability is unavoidable.
  9. ito25_Chip SomodevillaGetty Images_yellen Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

    An Insolvency Iceberg?

    Takatoshi Ito considers the risk that other banks will experience liquidity problems as interest rates continue to rise.

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