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Nancy Qian

Nancy Qian

Writing for PS since 2021
25 commentaries
1 videos & podcasts

Nancy Qian, Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, is a co-director of Northwestern University’s Global Poverty Research Lab and Founding Director of China Econ Lab.

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  1. China’s Youth Unemployment Problem
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    China’s Youth Unemployment Problem

    May 25, 2023 Nancy Qian warns that diminishing opportunities for new graduates will have profound long-run macroeconomic implications.

  2. Banning China from Owning US Farmland Will Achieve Nothing
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    Banning China from Owning US Farmland Will Achieve Nothing

    Apr 14, 2023 Nancy Qian explains why preventing other countries from buying agricultural land will not help American food producers.

  3. China’s Brutal COVID Winter
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    China’s Brutal COVID Winter

    Jan 5, 2023 Nancy Qian identifies the social and economic factors that are hampering basic infection-control efforts.

  4. What China’s Zero-COVID Drama Foreshadows
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    What China’s Zero-COVID Drama Foreshadows

    Dec 9, 2022 Nancy Qian thinks the recent protests – and the government's response – point to a broader political challenge.

  5. Post-War Reconstruction Is a Good Investment
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    Post-War Reconstruction Is a Good Investment

    Nov 21, 2022 Nancy Qian considers the main lessons that the Marshall Plan offers for Ukraine's eventual recovery.

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    Not Buying Central Banks’ Favorite Excuse

    Raghuram G. Rajan shows why monetary policymakers must bear some of the blame for the latest banking-sector turmoil.
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    The Lost Liberal Legal Imagination

    Nicholas Reed Langen

    Rather than seeing themselves as the arbiters of divine precepts, Supreme Court justices after World War II generally understood that constitutional jurisprudence must respond to the realities of the day. Yet today's conservatives have seized on the legacy of one of the few justices who did not.

    considers the complicated legacy of a progressive jurist whom conservatives now champion.
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    Saved by the Pandemic?

    Scott Fulford explains why its successful COVID-19 stimulus could help the US forge a path to financial stability for all.
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    How Much Work Is Enough?

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Autumn McDonald explain how the pandemic raised new questions – and some very old ones – for employers and employees.
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    How the Far Left Paves the Way for the Far Right

    Andrés Velasco

    In October 2022, Chileans elected a far-left constitutional convention which produced a text so bizarrely radical that nearly two-thirds of voters rejected it. Now Chileans have elected a new Constitutional Council and put a far-right party in the driver’s seat.

    blames Chilean President Gabriel Boric for the rapid rise of the authoritarian populist José Antonio Kast.
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    Creeping Toward Dystopia

    Robert Skidelsky worries that even elected governments will appropriate emerging technologies in the name of national security.
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    The Climate Loss and Damage Fund Is Coming

    Sameh Shoukry assesses recent efforts to implement a crucial initiative agreed at last year’s UN Climate Change Conference.
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    China’s Youth Unemployment Problem

    Nancy Qian warns that diminishing opportunities for new graduates will have profound long-run macroeconomic implications.
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    How Can the New EU Regulation Achieve Deforestation-Free Supply Chains?

    Joann de Zegher explains why transaction-level records are crucial to curbing the destruction of the world’s forests.

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