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Andrés Velasco

Andrés Velasco

Writing for PS since 2001
143 commentaries

Andrés Velasco, a former finance minister of Chile, is Project Director of the G30 Working Group on Latin America and Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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  1. Latin America’s Splendid Isolation
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    Latin America’s Splendid Isolation

    Nov 1, 2023 Andrés Velasco explains why nowadays, as in the 1930s and 1940s, being a distant region can be a boon to economic growth.

  2. Latin America’s Growth Conundrum
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    Latin America’s Growth Conundrum

    Sep 22, 2023 Arminio Fraga, et al. explain what it will take finally to achieve economic convergence with advanced economies.

  3. Javier Milei Means More of the Same for Argentina
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    Javier Milei Means More of the Same for Argentina

    Aug 30, 2023 Andrés Velasco says that the right-wing presidential candidate is all show – which is precisely why he’s the frontrunner.

  4. Lula’s Dance with Dictators
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    Lula’s Dance with Dictators

    Aug 1, 2023 Andrés Velasco attributes the Brazilian president's foreign-policy choices to geopolitical vanity and domestic challenges.

  5. Flexible Exchange Rates and Emerging Markets
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    Flexible Exchange Rates and Emerging Markets

    Jun 23, 2023 Andrés Velasco reviews the evidence about whether floating their currencies has insulated countries from external shocks.

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    Decarbonizing Our Food

    Anna Lappé & Patty Fong show that two of the sectors most relevant to climate change are more interlinked than many realize.
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    Water and the High Price of Bad Economics

    Mariana Mazzucato, et al. explain why new thinking is needed to address a crisis closely linked to climate change and biodiversity loss.
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    At COP28, Cities Will Show Us the Way

    Michael R. Bloomberg & Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr call attention to subnational efforts to drive climate-change mitigation and adaptation efforts.
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    Market Power Is Permanent, and Technological Competition Does Not Remove It

    Mordecai Kurz

    Rather than reducing concentrated market power through “disruption” or “creative destruction,” technological innovation historically has only added to the problem, by awarding monopolies to just one or a few dominant firms. Moreover, market forces offer no remedy to the problem; only public policy can provide that.

    shows that technological change leads not to disruption, but to deeper, more enduring forms of market power.
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    Poland’s Democratic Rebirth Pains

    Sławomir Sierakowski describes the rapid marginalization of the recently defeated Law and Justice party and its autocratic leader.
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    What Google and Facebook Owe News Publishers

    Haaris Mateen, et al. support laws requiring Big Tech to pay media companies for the content featured on their digital platforms.
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    The Legacy of Henry Kissinger

    Richard Haass

    The passing of America’s preeminent foreign-policy thinker and practitioner marks the end of an era. Throughout his long and extraordinarily influential career, Henry Kissinger built a legacy that Americans would be wise to heed in this new era of great-power politics and global disarray.

    reviews the life and career of America’s preeminent foreign-policy scholar-practitioner.
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    Fixing China’s Real-Estate Sector

    Yu Yongding suggests three measures the government can take to address property developers’ deteriorating finances.
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    The New Roots of Anti-Semitism

    Slavoj Žižek worries that Zionist fundamentalism is exacerbating the problem it purports to solve.

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