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Minouche Shafik

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Minouche Shafik is President of Columbia University and author of What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society (Princeton University Press, 2021).

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  1. The Pandemic and Our Broken Social Contracts
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    The Pandemic and Our Broken Social Contracts

    Jan 21, 2022 Minouche Shafik shows why confronting problems like COVID-19 will require a broader political overhaul.

  2. Toward a New Social Contract
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    Toward a New Social Contract

    Dec 26, 2019 Minouche Shafik explains how welfare states will need to change to manage demographic, technological, and economic pressures.

  3. Restoring Trust in Expertise
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    Restoring Trust in Expertise

    Mar 1, 2017 Minouche Shafik proposes several steps to revive public trust in those shaping consequential policy decisions.

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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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