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Amar Bhidé

Writing for PS since 2004
8 commentaries
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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 Next Big Development Challenge
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The Next Big Development Challenge

Arvind Subramanian & Josh Felman argue that emerging-market policymakers should not rely on Western approaches to reviving growth.

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How to Prevent the Japanification of East Asia’s Economies
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How to Prevent the Japanification of East Asia’s Economies

Lee Jong-Wha urges governments to enact sweeping structural reforms to avoid long-term economic stagnation.

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Crumbling Infrastructure – or Crumbling Cliché?
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Crumbling Infrastructure – or Crumbling Cliché?

Todd G. Buchholz thinks the right question is whether more goods and services are being delivered on time than in the past.

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Net-Zero at Davos Sustainability Now
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Net-Zero at Davos

Jules Kortenhorst hopes the global business community will heed the World Economic Forum's call to climate action.

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Teaching Old Markets New Tricks PS OnPoint
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Teaching Old Markets New Tricks

Preston McAfee & Simon Wilkie show how applied economics can be used to improve outcomes in everything from school matching to crowd control.

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How a Democratic Counteroffensive Can Win PS OnPoint
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How a Democratic Counteroffensive Can Win

George Soros

Open societies have not always needed defending in the determined way that they do today. But the tide turned against them after the 2008 global financial crisis, and, more than a decade later, the threat posed by authoritarian nationalism continues to rise.

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America’s Debilitating Middle-East Obsession
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America’s Debilitating Middle-East Obsession

Brahma Chellaney criticizes US President Donald Trump for perpetuating one of America's most self-defeating habits.

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The War on Talent
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The War on Talent

Anne-Marie Slaughter & Monica Chellam ask why the only function in US corporations where most leaders are women is treated as “office housekeeping.”

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