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  1. Daron Acemoglu

    Daron Acemoglu

    Writing for PS since 2012
    59 Commentaries

    Daron Acemoglu, Professor of Economics at MIT, is a co-author (with James A. Robinson) of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (Profile, 2019) and a co-author (with Simon Johnson) of the forthcoming Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (PublicAffairs, May 2023).

  2. Shlomo Avineri

    Shlomo Avineri

    Writing for PS since 1997
    54 Commentaries

    Shlomo Avineri, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, served as Director-General of Israel’s foreign ministry under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He is the author of, among others, Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State and Karl Marx: Philosophy and Revolution.

  3. Alberto Alesina

    Alberto Alesina

    Writing for PS since 1998
    44 Commentaries

    Alberto Alesina was Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

  4. Helmut K. Anheier

    Helmut K. Anheier

    Writing for PS since 2017
    31 Commentaries

    Helmut K. Anheier, Professor of Sociology at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, is Adjunct Professor of Social Welfare at UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs.

  5. Omar Ashour

    Omar Ashour

    Writing for PS since 2011
    26 Commentaries

    Omar Ashour, Senior Lecturer in Security Studies at the University of Exeter and a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Policy, is the author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements and Collusion to Collision: Islamist-Military Relations in Egypt.

  6. Rabah Arezki

    Rabah Arezki

    Writing for PS since 2016
    15 Commentaries

    Rabah Arezki, a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, is a former chief economist and vice president at the African Development Bank, a former chief economist of the World Bank’s Middle East and North Africa Region, and a former chief of the commodities unit at the International Monetary Fund.

  7. M. Niaz Asadullah

    M. Niaz Asadullah

    Writing for PS since 2017
    13 Commentaries

    M. Niaz Asadullah, Professor of Development Economics at Monash University Malaysia, is Head of the Southeast Asia cluster of the Global Labor Organization.

  8. John Andrews

    John Andrews

    Writing for PS since 2016
    13 Commentaries

    John Andrews, a former editor and foreign correspondent for The Economist, is the author of The World in Conflict: Understanding the World’s Troublespots.

  9. Yuen Yuen Ang

    Yuen Yuen Ang

    Writing for PS since 2010
    12 Commentaries

    Yuen Yuen Ang, Professor of Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University, is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap (Cornell University Press, 2016) and China’s Gilded Age (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

  10. Mkhaimar Abusada

    Mkhaimar Abusada

    Writing for PS since 2004
    12 Commentaries

    Mkhaimar Abusada is Professor of Political Science at Al-Azhar University in Gaza.

  11. Kofi A. Annan

    Kofi A. Annan

    Writing for PS since 2000
    10 Commentaries

    Kofi A. Annan, a former secretary-general of the United Nations and Nobel Peace laureate, was Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation, which mobilizes political will to overcome threats to peace, development, and human rights. He also chaired the Elders and the Africa Progress Panel.

  12. Anas Alhajji

    Anas Alhajji

    Writing for PS since 2003
    10 Commentaries

    Anas Alhajji is an energy economist and the former chief economist at NGP Energy Capital Management.

  13. Per Ahlmark

    Per Ahlmark

    Writing for PS since 2001
    8 Commentaries

    Former Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden.

  14. Nicholas Agar

    Nicholas Agar

    Writing for PS since 2019
    8 Commentaries

    Nicholas Agar is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and the author of How to Be Human in the Digital Economy (MIT Press, 2019). 

  15. Hassan Abbas

    Hassan Abbas

    Writing for PS since 2007
    8 Commentaries

    Hassan Abbas is a Senior Advisor to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government's Belfer Centre and a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society.

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    The Other Conflict on Europe’s Doorstep

    Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns that Azerbaijan may be preparing to renew its military aggression against neighboring Armenia.
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    Let the Banks Burn

    Yanis Varoufakis

    The banking system we take for granted is unfixable. The good news is that we no longer need to rely on any private, rent-seeking, socially destabilizing network of banks, at least not the way we have so far.

    shows why the current private system is unfixable – and why we don’t need to tolerate it anymore.
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    How China Benefits from Another US Banking Crisis

    Stephen S. Roach thinks America’s latest financial trouble will reinforce a narrative of terminal national decline.
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    Xi Jinping’s Chinese Tragedy

    Orville Schell interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross

    Like Vladimir Putin, China's leader is so steeped in a narrative of victimhood and fearful of appearing weak that it is hard to imagine him ever leading China out of the mess he has created. He could well be remembered as the leader who squandered history's most remarkable economic success story.

    about the country's increasingly worrisome trajectory, both at home and abroad.
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    Artificial Idiocy

    Slavoj Žižek fears that the rise of powerful chatbots will spell the death of irony and nuance in human thought.
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    Localizing Development Research

    Julia Kaufman & Jane Wanjiku Mariara explain why funders should be providing more long-term resources to researchers in developing countries.
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    The Simplest Fix for Banking

    Jan Eeckhout explains how central bank digital currencies would end bank runs and banks' excessive risk-taking.
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    America’s Interest in Ending the Ukraine Crisis

    Brahma Chellaney explains why prolonging the conflict risks realizing the West’s worst geopolitical nightmare.
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    America’s Industrial Policy Is Counterproductive

    Anne O. Krueger laments that the Biden administration is adding red tape to an inefficient subsidy program.

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