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Olivier Blanchard

Olivier Blanchard

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Olivier Blanchard, a former chief economist of the IMF, is Professor of Economics at MIT and Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is the co-editor (with Lawrence H. Summers) of Evolution or Revolution? (MIT Press, 2019). 

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    Liberation

    Jeffrey D. Sachs

    Throughout America’s history, the bigotry that fueled Donald Trump’s bigotry has never been far from the surface. Trump’s departure is an opportunity for a new beginning, not only in the deeply-wounded United States, but in multiethnic societies everywhere. 

     warns that the sense of liberation many people now feel won't endure without a historical and moral reckoning.
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