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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. Why a Global Recession Is Unlikely
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    Why a Global Recession Is Unlikely

    Sep 6, 2023 Koichi Hamada explains why consensus predictions of a worldwide economic downturn this year have not weathered well.

  2. Abe Shinzō, We Hardly Knew You
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    Abe Shinzō, We Hardly Knew You

    Jul 7, 2023 Koichi Hamada highlights the surprising breadth and intensity of the late leader’s engagement with the arts.

  3. Japan’s Giant of Central Banking
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    Japan’s Giant of Central Banking

    May 5, 2023 Koichi Hamada pays homage to Haruhiko Kuroda following the end of Kuroda's ten-year tenure as governor of the Bank of Japan.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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    Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks that Russia's recent meeting with North Korea was intended primarily as a warning to the South.
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    Saudi Arabia’s New Nationalism

    Bernard Haykel explains the reasoning behind the Kingdom's ongoing domestic- and foreign-policy transformation.
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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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