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Edward Jung, former Chief Architect at Microsoft, is Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Intellectual Ventures.

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  1. A Better Way from ‘R’ to ‘D’
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    A Better Way from ‘R’ to ‘D’

    Apr 27, 2017 Edward Jung says that to maximize commercialization of good ideas, it's time to disrupt innovation finance.

  2. Megafunding Drug Research
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    Megafunding Drug Research

    Dec 9, 2015 Edward Jung & Andrew W. Lo call for diversified pools of capital to finance high-cost pharmaceutical development.

  3. Asia’s Invention Boom
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    Asia’s Invention Boom

    Oct 1, 2014 Edward Jung argues that Western companies and governments should support innovation in the East.

  4. Misleading Indicators

    Misleading Indicators

    Mar 18, 2014 Edward Jung shows why reliance on indicators like GDP and FDI can impede the emergence of innovation economies.

  5. Plugging in Green Tech

    Plugging in Green Tech

    Dec 4, 2013 Edward Jung on the used-car market's lessons for green technologies.

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    The Green Growth Mindset

    Gernot Wagner sees doctrinaire debates about capitalism as irrelevant or even deleterious to the decarbonization effort.
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    Africa Is the Future of Multilateralism

    Mark Malloch-Brown explains why the continent should be at the forefront of efforts to bring about international reforms.
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    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Yi Fuxian

    The Chinese government is very good at covering up small problems, but these often pile up into much bigger ones that can no longer be ignored. The current real-estate bubble is a case in point, casting serious doubts not just on the wisdom of past policies but also on China's long-term economic future.

     traces the long roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.
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    Industrial Policy Is Back

    From semiconductors to electric vehicles, governments are identifying the strategic industries of the future and intervening to support them – abandoning decades of neoliberal orthodoxy in the process. Are industrial policies the key to tackling twenty-first-century economic challenges or a recipe for market distortions and lower efficiency?

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    Is AI a Master or Slave?

    Joschka Fischer wonders whether humanity can even hope to maintain control in an era of “mega-crisis.”
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    Laying Chicago Economics to Rest

    Antara Haldar

    From breakthroughs in behavioral economics to mounting evidence in the real world, there is good reason to think that the economic orthodoxy of the past 50 years now has one foot in the grave. The question is whether the mainstream economics profession has gotten the memo.

     looks back on 50 years of neoclassical economic orthodoxy and the damage it has wrought.
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    America’s Broken Civic Bargain

    J. Bradford DeLong worries that Republicans have abandoned one of the core principles that sustains a democracy over time.
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    Affirmative Action Under Siege

    Ashwini Deshpande shows how the supreme courts in India and the US have undermined efforts to address serious discrimination.
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    Is the Fed’s Negative Capital a Problem?

    Willem H. Buiter thinks not, but recommends a reform designed to ensure that it does not become one in the future.

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