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Heleen Mees

Writing for PS since 2005
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Heleen Mees, teaches at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and is the author of Between Greed and Desire – The World between Wall Street and Main Street.

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Why China's Growth Model Makes Sense

Why China's Growth Model Makes Sense

May 16, 2013 Heleen Mees

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Financial Crisis or Innovation Crisis? Both!

Financial Crisis or Innovation Crisis? Both!

May 2, 2013 Heleen Mees

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The Big Wage Squeeze

The Big Wage Squeeze

Apr 22, 2013 Heleen Mees

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Transatlantic Strife

Transatlantic Strife

Apr 9, 2013 Heleen Mees

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China’s Reliable Rise
Paul Lachine

China’s Reliable Rise

Jul 29, 2012 Heleen Mees

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Transatlantic Strife
Apr 11, 2013

I don't deny that calm was restored thanks to Mario Draghi, and especially the OMT. I just point out that the OMT is inseparable from the austerity measures, and it's the package that financial markets respond to.

The Next Big Development Challenge
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The Next Big Development Challenge

Arvind Subramanian & Josh Felman argue that emerging-market policymakers should not rely on Western approaches to reviving growth.

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How to Prevent the Japanification of East Asia’s Economies
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How to Prevent the Japanification of East Asia’s Economies

Lee Jong-Wha urges governments to enact sweeping structural reforms to avoid long-term economic stagnation.

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Crumbling Infrastructure – or Crumbling Cliché?
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Crumbling Infrastructure – or Crumbling Cliché?

Todd G. Buchholz thinks the right question is whether more goods and services are being delivered on time than in the past.

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Net-Zero at Davos Sustainability Now
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Net-Zero at Davos

Jules Kortenhorst hopes the global business community will heed the World Economic Forum's call to climate action.

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Teaching Old Markets New Tricks PS OnPoint
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Teaching Old Markets New Tricks

Preston McAfee & Simon Wilkie show how applied economics can be used to improve outcomes in everything from school matching to crowd control.

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How a Democratic Counteroffensive Can Win PS OnPoint
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How a Democratic Counteroffensive Can Win

George Soros

Open societies have not always needed defending in the determined way that they do today. But the tide turned against them after the 2008 global financial crisis, and, more than a decade later, the threat posed by authoritarian nationalism continues to rise.

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America’s Debilitating Middle-East Obsession
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America’s Debilitating Middle-East Obsession

Brahma Chellaney criticizes US President Donald Trump for perpetuating one of America's most self-defeating habits.

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The War on Talent
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The War on Talent

Anne-Marie Slaughter & Monica Chellam ask why the only function in US corporations where most leaders are women is treated as “office housekeeping.”

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