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Philipp Lepenies

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Philipp Lepenies is a visiting professor in political science at the Free University of Berlin.

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Why GDP?
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Why GDP?

Aug 16, 2016 Philipp Lepenies traces the indicator's utility and persistence to political realities, not economic considerations.

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The Most Important Health-Care Tool Is Trust
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The Most Important Health-Care Tool Is Trust

Jeremy Farrar urges policymakers, practitioners, and civic leaders to learn from a new survey of attitudes toward science.

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Can Europe Become a Global Player?
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Can Europe Become a Global Player?

Mark Leonard

As the nominee to serve as the EU's next High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell will have an opportunity to update Europe's approach to foreign policy. Chief among the challenges facing the bloc is to reassert its own sovereignty in an age of great-power politics.

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Is Politics Getting to the Fed?
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Is Politics Getting to the Fed?

Robert J. Barro

In the early 1980s, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker, was able to choke off runaway inflation because he was afforded the autonomy necessary to implement steep interest-rate hikes. Today, the Fed is clearly under unprecedented political pressure, and it is starting to show.

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Don’t Fear the Scooter
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Don’t Fear the Scooter

Alon Tal argues that smart policymaking can easily address most complaints about a new feature of urban life.

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Post-American Networks
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Post-American Networks

Anne-Marie Slaughter & Elina Ribakova show how the Trump administration has hastened the emergence of new global linkages that exclude the US.

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How Can Developing Countries Pay for the SDGs?
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How Can Developing Countries Pay for the SDGs?

Tania Masi, et al. say that strong institutional checks and balances are the key to mobilizing public finance for development.

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The Fall of the Economists’ Empire
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The Fall of the Economists’ Empire

Robert Skidelsky argues that the supposed univeralism of Western social science and values always depended on Western power.

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The US Needs to Talk About China
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The US Needs to Talk About China

Minxin Pei urges the Trump administration to explain to the public the objectives of its confrontational policy.

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