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Dennis J. Snower

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Dennis J. Snower, a professorial research fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking and a senior research fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, is President of the Global Solutions Initiative, President Emeritus of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution.

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  1. All Are Welcome at the Climate Club
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    All Are Welcome at the Climate Club

    Aug 5, 2022 Avram Alpert & Dennis J. Snower explain why a new German-designed coordination framework can succeed where similar past efforts have failed.

  2. Rebuilding the Foundation for Peaceful Progress
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    Rebuilding the Foundation for Peaceful Progress

    Mar 23, 2022 Dennis J. Snower calls for political leaders to focus on three priorities of global collective action.

  3. How to End Climate Failure
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    How to End Climate Failure

    Dec 13, 2021 Dennis J. Snower urges leaders to follow the late economist Elinor Ostrom’s principles for managing the global commons.

  4. The Real Economic Fallout of COVID-19
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    The Real Economic Fallout of COVID-19

    Apr 8, 2020 Dennis J. Snower says governments must focus on overcoming the production and consumption imbalances caused by the pandemic.

  5. Fighting the Diseases of Want and Plenty
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    Fighting the Diseases of Want and Plenty

    Dec 11, 2019 Dennis J. Snower urges prevention as the most effective way to reduce disease burdens in rich and poor countries alike.

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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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