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Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg

Writing for PS since 2019
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Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, a former World Bank Group chief economist and editor-in-chief of the American Economic Review, is Professor of Economics at Yale University.

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  1. What a Successful Industrial Policy Needs
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    What a Successful Industrial Policy Needs

    Sep 17, 2024 Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg demonstrates that while subsidies can help, knowledge and technology transfers are crucial.

  2. Is Greece’s Six-Day Work Week a Harbinger?
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    Is Greece’s Six-Day Work Week a Harbinger?

    Jul 19, 2024 Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg points out that the country is facing the same demographic problem as almost all advanced economies.

  3. The High Costs of the New US Tariffs on Chinese EVs
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    The High Costs of the New US Tariffs on Chinese EVs

    May 22, 2024 Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg laments the Biden administration's embrace of costly, futile efforts to outcompete low-cost rivals.

  4. Why Have Developing Countries Soured on Multilateralism?
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    Why Have Developing Countries Soured on Multilateralism?

    Mar 19, 2024 Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg traces the roots of dissatisfaction to advanced economies' use of bodies like the World Trade Organization.

  5. Why Are Americans Dissatisfied Despite a Strong Economy?
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    Why Are Americans Dissatisfied Despite a Strong Economy?

    Jan 19, 2024 Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg examines several possible explanations for the Biden administration’s counterintuitively low public approval.

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    What Causes Prosperity?

    Jeffrey Frankel shows how this year's Nobel Prize-winning economists tackled a once-insoluble problem.
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    Ukraine’s Post-Colonial Future

    Michael Ignatieff believes that what is at stake in the war with Russia is the fate of the last European imperialism.
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    Donald Trump’s Tariffs Would Hurt US Workers and Businesses

    Maurice Obstfeld shows why targeting an overall reduction in imports would reduce America’s real wages and national income.
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    Africa’s Green Future Starts with Debt Relief

    Bogolo Kenewendo & Patrick Njoroge propose large-scale relief to ensure that the continent’s countries can invest in climate action.
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    Diane Coyle on economic progress, tech monopolies, artificial intelligence, and more

    Diane Coyle advocates a new public philosophy that rejects viewing “government” and “market” as opposites, explains why time-use data must shape technological development, warns that policymakers are devising AI regulation in a thick conceptual fog, and more.
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    A New Paradigm for Standing Forests

    Ajay Banga, et al.

    While forest carbon markets have created new revenue streams, they usually reward only those countries, communities, or project developers who are focused on reducing their emissions from deforestation. Something more is needed to tie financial rewards to forests that aren’t under immediate threat.

    present a new mechanism to generate financial returns for countries that prevent deforestation.
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    Working-Class Antiheroes

    Ngaire Woods advocates using domestic labor legislation that supports unionization – not tariffs – to protect workers.
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    Toward a Fifth World Order

    Gordon Brown & Mohamed A. El-Erian

    Historically, massive revisions to the international system have come about only after a complete breakdown of the previous order. With today's global institutions sorely in need of reform, can the transition to a new order be achieved without incurring the costs and pain that such a breakdown would entail?

    explain why multilateral institutions urgently need to be reformed, and why the G20 is the right forum for it.
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    US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China

    Michael R. Strain decries both parties’ reluctance to prepare Americans for the employment opportunities of today and tomorrow.

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