Can We Prevent the Global Fire Next Time?
Mar 31, 2021 sees four reasons to think post-pandemic reforms will be more difficult than the changes adopted after the 2008 financial crisis.
Simon Johnson
Simon Johnson, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, is a professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and a co-chair of the COVID-19 Policy Alliance. He is the co-author, with Jonathan Gruber, of Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream and the co-author, with James Kwak, of 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and The Next Financial Meltdown.
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Can We Prevent the Global Fire Next Time? 
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Realizing the Great Realization Realizing the Great Realization
Mar 1, 2021 sees three policy areas where debates in the US are becoming less confrontational and more constructive.
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Vaccination Is Not Enough Vaccination Is Not Enough
Feb 2, 2021 , et al. show how regular testing can keep infection rates low even in high-prevalence settings like schools.
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Donald Trump’s COVID Comeuppance Donald Trump’s COVID Comeuppance
Nov 2, 2020 thinks that if the pandemic costs the US president his job, it will also end his long, failed business career.
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After the Vaccine After the Vaccine
Sep 30, 2020 argues that COVID-19 testing at scale will still be necessary – but possible only at much lower cost.
