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Koichi Hamada

Writing for PS since 2013
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Koichi Hamada, Professor Emeritus at Yale University, was a special adviser to former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō.

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  1. Should Japan Have a Nuclear-Sharing Agreement?
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    Should Japan Have a Nuclear-Sharing Agreement?

    Mar 15, 2023 Koichi Hamada argues that the country’s increasingly fraught security environment demands a stronger deterrent.

  2. Barbarians at Democracy’s Gates
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    Barbarians at Democracy’s Gates

    Jan 2, 2023 Koichi Hamada hopes that acts of political violence in the US and Japan will inspire a more robust defense of progress.

  3. Don’t Blame the Democrats for US Inflation
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    Don’t Blame the Democrats for US Inflation

    Nov 3, 2022 Koichi Hamada defends the party’s responses to the pandemic and the Ukraine war, despite their effects on prices.

  4. Mourning the Real Abe Shinzō
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    Mourning the Real Abe Shinzō

    Sep 2, 2022 Koichi Hamada recounts his time advising the slain Japanese prime minister, who turned out to be more liberal than assumed.

  5. Is Taiwan the Next Ukraine?
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    Is Taiwan the Next Ukraine?

    Jul 7, 2022 Koichi Hamada considers whether US abandonment of strategic ambiguity is really the best way to deter a Chinese invasion.

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    America’s Industrial Policy Is Counterproductive

    Anne O. Krueger laments that the Biden administration is adding red tape to an inefficient subsidy program.
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    Who Gets Squeezed by Austerity?

    Christy Braham urges governments to reject calls for budget cuts and invest in the welfare of billions of vulnerable workers.
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    America’s Financial Regulatory System Is Still Broken

    Howard Davies

    When a bank fails in the United States, questions about who is to blame are often directed at many different regulatory agencies, because the system is complex and hard for outsiders to understand. In the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the case for an overhaul could not be stronger.

     laments that the post-2008 Dodd-Frank reforms left in place a framework riddled with structural shortcomings.
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    The Water Crisis Is a Vital Investment Opportunity

    Ambroise Fayolle & Henk Ovink calls for new thinking about how we value the planet’s most important natural resource.
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    PS Events: What Economics Is Missing

    PS editors present the What Economics is Missing event.
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    Hell in the Holy Land

    Carl Bildt fears that the stage is set for another major violent conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
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    The Fed Must Not Flinch

    Michael R. Strain

    The failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank are significant market events. But, given an overheated labor market and 1970s-like inflation, if the Fed cannot see the whites of the eyes of a systemic banking crisis, then it must move aggressively on the inflation front.

     urges the US central bank to continue raising interest rates, despite signs of financial-sector fragility.
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    Reimagining Development

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng argue that grassroots engagement and social enterprise are crucial to achieving countries' aspirations.
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    What the World Bank Can Do About Climate Change

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg explains how the institution can maximize its contribution to the global net-zero agenda.

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