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Jean-Pierre Danthine, a former vice chairman of the Swiss National Bank, is Professor and Co-Director of the College of Management at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Associate Member and President of the Paris School of Economics.

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  1. How to Keep Central Banks Independent
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    How to Keep Central Banks Independent

    Jul 11, 2019 Patrick Bolton, et al. propose new measures to help monetary policymakers remain effective guardians of financial stability.

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    The Improving Economics and Worsening Geopolitics of Clean Energy

    Daniel Gros warns that political obstacles are preventing the widespread uptake of low-cost green technologies.
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    Industrial Policy’s Deceptive New Clothes

    Raghuram G. Rajan

    If the new "industrial strategy" is offering ideas for better public governance, it is useful. But it becomes positively dangerous when it turns to the private sector, where state interventions inevitably undermine competition, disrupt price signals, and dampen the motivation to innovate.

     sees little reason to support the case for renewed government interventions in the private sector.
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    A New Trilemma Haunts the World Economy

    Dani Rodrik

    It may be impossible simultaneously to combat climate change, boost the middle class in advanced economies, and reduce global poverty. Under current policy trajectories, any combination of two goals appears to come at the expense of the third.

     weighs the trade-offs between combating climate change, global poverty, and rich countries’ middle-class decline.
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    The Choice Confronting American Voters

    Koichi Hamada warns that electing a president who refuses to accept defeat could jeopardize not only US democracy.
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    Climate Security and Geopolitics

    Ian Bremmer

    Although multilateral efforts to address climate change are not well served by deepening geopolitical rivalries or the apparent trend toward global economic fragmentation, that doesn’t mean governments have abandoned the pursuit of net-zero emissions. Instead, the process has become more competitive – and more complex.

     considers the international political dynamics of current energy, trade, and environmental policies.
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    Economic Theory for the Real World

    James K. Galbraith

    Although policies based on mainstream neoclassical economics, famously enshrined in the Washington Consensus, have clearly failed, economic theory has remained in a state of paralyzed confusion. What has been missing is a full shift to modern modes of thought informed by contemporary science.

     offers a new conceptual framework based on twenty-first-century science and simple observation.
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    Learning from the US Military’s Climate Leadership

    Sherri Goodman & Leah Emanuel explain how the American armed forces emerged at the forefront of the effort to combat global warming.
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    The Climate-Conflict Nexus

    Kyungmee Kim shows how wars and geopolitical tensions are hindering progress on climate-change mitigation and adaptation.
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    The Water-Security Crisis

    Mariana Mazzucato, et al.

    Increasingly severe water shortages represent a human-made crisis that can be resolved through human interventions. The situation demands new thinking about the economics of this critical resource and how to manage it through mission-oriented strategies that span all levels of governance.

     call attention to a global problem that demands far more attention from policymakers at all levels.

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