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Olivier Blanchard

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Olivier Blanchard, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is 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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  1. The Post-Vaccine Risk Phase
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    The Post-Vaccine Risk Phase

    Mar 31, 2021 Olivier Blanchard & Jean Pisani-Ferry foresee economic-policy challenges that can be overcome only when the COVID-19 virus has been fully contained.

  2. Europe Must Fix Its Fiscal Rules
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    Europe Must Fix Its Fiscal Rules

    Jun 10, 2019 Olivier Blanchard shows how eurozone member-state governments could be given more leeway to pursue stimulus safely.

  3. The Long and Winding Road to Recovery
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    The Long and Winding Road to Recovery

    Jun 17, 2011 Olivier Blanchard, et al.

  4. How to Emerge from the Crisis in 2009

    How to Emerge from the Crisis in 2009

    Dec 1, 2008 Olivier Blanchard

  5. The ECB’s Path Not Taken

    The ECB’s Path Not Taken

    Dec 1, 2005 Olivier Blanchard

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    The Ukraine-Russia Culture War

    Yuriy Gorodnichenko & Ilona Sologoub survey the heated battles that have been playing out far from the physical battlefield.
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    The Poverty of AI Pessimism

    Jim O'Neill questions the increasingly popular sentiment that the technology will be economically destabilizing.
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    The Post-American Middle East

    Mark Leonard explains how the region became a laboratory for a future in which the US is not the sole hegemon.
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    How to Think About Climate-Tech Solutions

    Gernot Wagner offers lessons for navigating a field that is fraught with hype, unintended consequences, and other pitfalls.
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    Can the ECB Escape Its Own Trap?

    Otmar Issing examines the policy dilemma facing central banks as they try to shrink their bloated balance sheets.
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    The Democrats’ Disastrous Debt Deal

    James K. Galbraith decries the party’s willingness to play along with the Republicans’ bad-faith politicking.
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    Building a Biotech Alliance of Democracies

    Jafer Ahmad & Abigail Kukura explains how the US and its allies and partners can maintain leadership in a strategically vital sector.
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    The Transatlantic Carbon-Pricing Clash

    Daniel Gros predicts that the opposing approaches taken by the US and the EU will lead to trade and political frictions.
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    The Geopolitics of Nature

    Simon Zadek highlights the fatal flaw in green “solutions” like the EU’s new deforestation legislation.

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