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Raghuram G. Rajan

Raghuram G. Rajan

Writing for PS since 2003
78 commentaries
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Raghuram G. Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, is Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the author, most recently, of The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind (Penguin, 2020).

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  1. The Post-Inflation Economy That Could Be
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    The Post-Inflation Economy That Could Be

    Aug 2, 2022 Raghuram G. Rajan shows how international cooperation and increased trade in services could unleash a productivity revolution.

  2. Just Say No to “Friend-Shoring”
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    Just Say No to “Friend-Shoring”

    Jun 3, 2022 Raghuram G. Rajan explains why a popular new policy proposal by US President Joe Biden's administration should worry everyone.

  3. Regulating the Crypto Wild West
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    Regulating the Crypto Wild West

    Apr 22, 2022 Raghuram G. Rajan interviewed by Project Syndicate about how financial authorities can reduce digital-asset risk without smothering innovation.

  4. Economic Weapons of Mass Destruction
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    Economic Weapons of Mass Destruction

    Mar 17, 2022 Raghuram G. Rajan foresees a need for tighter controls governing the use of sweeping financial and trade sanctions.

  5. The End of Free-Lunch Economics
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    The End of Free-Lunch Economics

    Jan 31, 2022 Raghuram G. Rajan sees the long-ignored bill for overly indulgent economic policies starting to come due.

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    The High Stakes of Climate-Risk Accounting

    Gernot Wagner & Tom Brookes show why economists can no longer ignore the need for a far more comprehensive set of welfare indicators.
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    The Cost of the Fed’s Challenged Credibility

    Mohamed A. El-Erian interprets the latest market tumult as the price of delaying monetary-policy tightening for too long.
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    Core Dangers for the Fed and China

    Stephen S. Roach

    Just as a fixation on core inflation can mislead central banks, as it has done with the US Federal Reserve, the power of a “core leader” like China’s Xi Jinping is a recipe for misdirected and ultimately unsustainable policy regimes. The very notion of a core adds a false sense of precision when addressing complex problems.

     thinks the US central bank and Chinese governance share a conceptual weakness leading to major policy blunders.
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    Amazon’s Satanic Mills

    Antara Haldar sees recent unionization efforts as a welcome response to an unethical and inhumane business model.
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    Asia’s Captive Market for Migrant Labor

    M. Niaz Asadullah highlights how an entrenched alliance of politicians, bureaucrats, and business elites is exploiting workers.
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    In Search of a Development Plan for Asia

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng argue that bottom-up institutions – not top-down strategies – are the key to regional integration.
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    Giorgia Meloni’s Moment

    Bill Emmott sees little difference between the Brothers of Italy’s program and that of recent right-wing governments.
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    America’s Education Emergency

    Michael R. Strain calls for urgent action to make up for pandemic learning loss in light of dismal new test scores.
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    God Save the Pound?

    Andrés Velasco explains why sterling is plummeting when economic theory says it should be soaring.

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