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Laura Tyson

Writing for PS since 2012
109 commentaries
1 videos & podcasts

Laura Tyson, a former chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration, is a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the Board of Advisers at Angeleno Group.

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  1. A Requiem for Women’s Rights in America
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    A Requiem for Women’s Rights in America

    Jul 12, 2022 Laura Tyson surveys the damage the Supreme Court has wrought with its ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.

  2. Women’s Rights and Childhood Poverty
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    Women’s Rights and Childhood Poverty

    May 27, 2022 Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca think it will fall to progressive US states to mitigate the impact of harsh new abortion restrictions.

  3. Public-Private Decarbonization
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    Public-Private Decarbonization

    Apr 22, 2022 Laura Tyson & Daniel Weiss show why climate-change mitigation will depend on coordination between governments and industries.

  4. From Sanctions to Semiconductor Resilience and Security
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    From Sanctions to Semiconductor Resilience and Security

    Mar 22, 2022 Laura Tyson & John Zysman see the broad-based response to Russia's war as a foundation for multilateral industrial collaboration.

  5. Neglecting Democracy in America
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    Neglecting Democracy in America

    Feb 21, 2022 Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca warn that the assault on voting rights in Republican-controlled states could undermine the US economy.

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    The Taliban’s War on Women and Girls

    Yasmine Sherif & Gordon Brown urge the Afghan government to honor its promises on education and economic participation.
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    Inflation’s Emotional Scars

    Diane Coyle thinks today's surging prices will have two profound consequences for Western economies.
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    Did the Afghan Failure Lead to the Ukraine War?

    Carl Bildt

    One year after the fall of Kabul and the Taliban’s return to power, Afghanistan is in dire straits, and America and the broader West have yet to conduct a proper post-mortem of the policy failures there. Worse, Russia appears to have taken the US withdrawal as an invitation to launch a new war of its own.

     revisits the fall of Kabul to consider its implications for America and the world, one year later.
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    Can Gender Equality Be Saved?

    Khadyja Sy & Lindsay Glassco show how the pandemic has reversed progress for women and girls in Africa and elsewhere.
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    Holes in the Recession Story

    Jim O'Neill gives four reasons for questioning whether economic forecasters' current pessimism is still justified.
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    Fixing Our Public-Health Data Problem

    William A. Haseltine emphasizes the high costs of not having standardized protocols for collecting and sharing clinical information.
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    Uzbekistan’s Good Crisis

    Djoomart Otorbaev urges the country’s government to recognize the real causes of recent protests in Karakalpakstan.
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    Taking Back the Ocean, Inc.

    Alexander Kozul-Wright accuses the United Nations of perpetuating policies that are destroying Earth’s largest biosphere.
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    The Clean-Energy Race Is On

    Gernot Wagner shows how America's landmark climate legislation will trigger a cascade of economic and environmental benefits.

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