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Jeffrey Frankel

Jeffrey Frankel

Writing for PS since 2000
200 commentaries
2 videos & podcasts

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Jeffrey Frankel, Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University, previously served as a member of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers. He is a research associate at the US National Bureau of Economic Research.

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  1. How to Quench the American West’s Thirst
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    How to Quench the American West’s Thirst

    May 29, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel argues that eliminating water subsidies and implementing market pricing is better than the alternative.

  2. Debt Restructuring for Commodity Exporters
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    Debt Restructuring for Commodity Exporters

    Apr 25, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel proposes a mechanism that would allow indebted governments to hedge against negative price shocks.

  3. Fifty Years of Floating Currencies
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    Fifty Years of Floating Currencies

    Mar 20, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel explains why the shift toward exchange-rate flexibility after 1973 was not a policy failure, as many believed.

  4. The Crusade to Ban ESG Makes No Sense
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    The Crusade to Ban ESG Makes No Sense

    Feb 24, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel explains why US Republicans' attack on “woke capital” is misguided, dangerous, and ideologically incoherent.

  5. Why This Debt-Ceiling Fight Is Different
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    Why This Debt-Ceiling Fight Is Different

    Jan 19, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel warns that the current partisan standoff in Washington may not end with a last-minute compromise.

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    The Ukraine-Russia Culture War

    Yuriy Gorodnichenko & Ilona Sologoub survey the heated battles that have been playing out far from the physical battlefield.
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    The Poverty of AI Pessimism

    Jim O'Neill questions the increasingly popular sentiment that the technology will be economically destabilizing.
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    The Post-American Middle East

    Mark Leonard explains how the region became a laboratory for a future in which the US is not the sole hegemon.
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    How to Think About Climate-Tech Solutions

    Gernot Wagner offers lessons for navigating a field that is fraught with hype, unintended consequences, and other pitfalls.
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    Can the ECB Escape Its Own Trap?

    Otmar Issing examines the policy dilemma facing central banks as they try to shrink their bloated balance sheets.
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    The Democrats’ Disastrous Debt Deal

    James K. Galbraith decries the party’s willingness to play along with the Republicans’ bad-faith politicking.
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    Building a Biotech Alliance of Democracies

    Jafer Ahmad & Abigail Kukura explains how the US and its allies and partners can maintain leadership in a strategically vital sector.
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    The Transatlantic Carbon-Pricing Clash

    Daniel Gros predicts that the opposing approaches taken by the US and the EU will lead to trade and political frictions.
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    The Geopolitics of Nature

    Simon Zadek highlights the fatal flaw in green “solutions” like the EU’s new deforestation legislation.

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