Amar Bhidé

Writing for PS since 2004
8 commentaries
0 videos & podcasts

Amar Bhidé is a professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the author of A Call for Judgment.

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Why Is Immigration Different from Trade?
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Why Is Immigration Different from Trade?

Jan 11, 2019 Amar Bhidé calls for a pragmatic approach to migration that minimizes fears by managing risks.

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Corralling the Info-Monopolists
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Corralling the Info-Monopolists

May 14, 2018 Amar Bhidé argues that regulators should target data collection, not protection, by companies like Facebook and Google.

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Re-Decentralizing the Fed
Dean Rohrer

Re-Decentralizing the Fed

Oct 9, 2013 Amar Bhidé on why US monetary policy should be decentralized.

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Debt Reckoning for Europe
Chris Van Es

Debt Reckoning for Europe

Apr 12, 2012 Amar Bhidé

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The Root of All Sovereign-Debt Crises

The Root of All Sovereign-Debt Crises

Aug 4, 2011 Amar Bhidé & Edmund S. Phelps

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Big Tech Is Watching – and Being Watched
Mar 27, 2019

Very thoughtful (2-fer) review. Thank you Bill Janeway! Spurs all kinds of questions about remedies. Anti-trust seems like an excellent place to start, but regulating conduct rather than breaking up the behemoths seems like the way to go. And who will lead? I think its much more likely a transnational European effort will have more bite than a US led effort -- even though the companies are US based. Or could, irony or ironies, authoritarian regime in their quest to suppress as the most effective counterweights? Lots Knightian uncertainty here!

The Economic Consequences of Automation

Robert Skidelsky

Economic theory does not provide a clear answer regarding the overall impact of technological progress on jobs. And even if automation has traditionally been beneficial in the long run, policymakers should never ignore its disruptive short-term effects on workers.

Jerome Powell’s Dilemma

Carmen M. Reinhart & Vincent Reinhart

There is a reason that the US Federal Reserve chair often has a haunted look. Probably to his deep and never-to-be-expressed frustration, the Fed is setting monetary policy in a way that increases the likelihood that President Donald Trump will be reelected next year.

Brexit House of Cards

Mark Malloch-Brown

Following British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's suspension of Parliament, and an appeals court ruling declaring that act unlawful, the United Kingdom finds itself in a state of political frenzy. With rational decision-making having become all but impossible, any new political agreement that emerges is likely to be both temporary and deeply flawed.

Amar Bhidé

Why Is Immigration Different from Trade?

Corralling the Info-Monopolists

Re-Decentralizing the Fed

Debt Reckoning for Europe

The Root of All Sovereign-Debt Crises

Big Tech Is Watching – and Being Watched

Asia’s Multilateral Balancing Act

The Economic Consequences of Automation

The Return of Fiscal Policy

Jerome Powell’s Dilemma

Can Direct Democracy Defeat Populism?

Strengthening Land Rights Will Curb Migration

Islands of Climate Ambition

Brexit House of Cards

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