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Anne O. Krueger

Anne O. Krueger

Writing for PS since 2014
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Anne O. Krueger, a former World Bank chief economist and former first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, is Senior Research Professor of International Economics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Development at Stanford University.

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  1. America’s Industrial Policy Is Counterproductive
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    America’s Industrial Policy Is Counterproductive

    Mar 22, 2023 Anne O. Krueger laments that the Biden administration is adding red tape to an inefficient subsidy program.

  2. Multilateralism Is Still Better
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    Multilateralism Is Still Better

    Feb 16, 2023 Anne O. Krueger thinks the Biden administration is making a big mistake by pursuing economic security through self-sufficiency.

  3. China and the Sovereign-Debt Bomb
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    China and the Sovereign-Debt Bomb

    Jan 13, 2023 Anne O. Krueger calls for a renewed push to align major creditors around efforts to sustain growth in the developing world.

  4. Sleepwalking Into a Global Trade War
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    Sleepwalking Into a Global Trade War

    Dec 22, 2022 Anne O. Krueger calls for urgent action to forestall a vicious cycle of protectionism unleashed by the United States.

  5. The False Promise of America’s CHIPS Act
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    The False Promise of America’s CHIPS Act

    Nov 21, 2022 Anne O. Krueger argues that large subsidies and government management will not keep the US semiconductor industry on top.

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    Where Is the Global South’s Rescue Brigade?

    Vera Songwe decries the unequal responses to liquidity crises in Silicon Valley compared to the developing world.
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    Beyond Industrial Policy

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Elizabeth Garlow make the case for an economic strategy that prioritizes shared prosperity over competition.
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    The Other Conflict on Europe’s Doorstep

    Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns that Azerbaijan may be preparing to renew its military aggression against neighboring Armenia.
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    Let the Banks Burn

    Yanis Varoufakis

    The banking system we take for granted is unfixable. The good news is that we no longer need to rely on any private, rent-seeking, socially destabilizing network of banks, at least not the way we have so far.

    shows why the current private system is unfixable – and why we don’t need to tolerate it anymore.
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    How China Benefits from Another US Banking Crisis

    Stephen S. Roach thinks America’s latest financial trouble will reinforce a narrative of terminal national decline.
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    Xi Jinping’s Chinese Tragedy

    Orville Schell interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross about the country's increasingly worrisome trajectory, both at home and abroad.
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    Artificial Idiocy

    Slavoj Žižek

    The problem with the new chatbots is not just that they are often stupid and naive; it is that they are not “stupid” or “naive” enough to pick up on the nuances, ironies, and revealing contradictions that constitute human culture and communication. Worse, by relying on them, we risk succumbing to the same obtuseness.

    fears that the rise of powerful chatbots will spell the death of irony and nuance in human thought.
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    Localizing Development Research

    Julia Kaufman & Jane Wanjiku Mariara explain why funders should be providing more long-term resources to researchers in developing countries.
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    The Simplest Fix for Banking

    Jan Eeckhout explains how central bank digital currencies would end bank runs and banks' excessive risk-taking.

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