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Bo Lidegaard is Co-Founder, Partner, and Head of Research at Kaya Advisory.

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  1. Europe’s Energy Choice
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    Europe’s Energy Choice

    Jul 26, 2022 Bo Lidegaard argues that the right response to the immediate crisis can and must advance longer-term climate goals.

  2. Sustainability in the Trump Era
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    Sustainability in the Trump Era

    Dec 21, 2016 Bo Lidegaard calls for global action to minimize the environmental risks posed by the incoming US administration.

  3. Climate Change in the Trumpocene Age
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    Climate Change in the Trumpocene Age

    Dec 2, 2016 Bo Lidegaard examines arguments by Jeffrey Sachs, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Joseph Stiglitz, and other Project Syndicate commentators and concludes that the US president-elect’s ability to derail global progress toward a green economy is more limited than many believe.

  4. Beyond the Paris Climate Agreement
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    Beyond the Paris Climate Agreement

    Oct 20, 2016 Bo Lidegaard doubts that emissions targets can be met without a fundamental shift in how business does business.

  5. Hillary Clinton and the Scandinavian-American Dream
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    Hillary Clinton and the Scandinavian-American Dream

    Jul 25, 2016 Bo Lidegaard thinks the US can emulate the Nordic countries' success in ensuring high employment at decent pay.

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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 Kabubo-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

    Following the latest banking crisis, monetary authorities should seriously consider how modern digital technologies could be used to avert such problems in the future. A central bank digital currency would both eliminate many barriers to financial transactions and end the risk of bank runs once and for all.

     explains how central bank digital currencies would end bank runs and banks' excessive risk-taking.
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    America’s Interest in Ending the Ukraine Crisis

    Brahma Chellaney explains why prolonging the conflict risks realizing the West’s worst geopolitical nightmare.
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    America’s Industrial Policy Is Counterproductive

    Anne O. Krueger laments that the Biden administration is adding red tape to an inefficient subsidy program.
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    Who Gets Squeezed by Austerity?

    Christy Braham urges governments to reject calls for budget cuts and invest in the welfare of billions of vulnerable workers.
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    America’s Financial Regulatory System Is Still Broken

    Howard Davies laments that the post-2008 Dodd-Frank reforms left in place a framework riddled with structural shortcomings.
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    The Water Crisis Is a Vital Investment Opportunity

    Ambroise Fayolle & Henk Ovink calls for new thinking about how we value the planet’s most important natural resource.
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    PS Events: What Economics Is Missing

    PS editors present the What Economics is Missing event.

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