Between now and the end of this decade, climate-related investments need to increase by orders of magnitude to keep the world on track toward achieving even more ambitious targets by mid-century. Fortunately, if done right, such investments could usher in an entirely new and better economy.
explains what it will take to mobilize capital for the net-zero transition worldwide.
Following the latest G20 summit, the G7 should be thinking seriously about deepening its own ties with more non-aligned countries. If the Ukraine war drags on, and if China continues to threaten to take Taiwan by force, the G20 will be split between friends of the BRICS and friends of the G7.
sees the grouping as increasingly divided between friends of the G7 and friends of China and Russia.
奥斯汀,德克萨斯—2008年金融崩盘要求全球金融体系降低贸易失衡、遏制投机性资本流、防止系统性传染。当然,这正是最初的布雷顿森林体系的目标。但这一体系如今无法生存,也不值得追求。那么,可能的替代方案是怎样的?
1944年的布雷顿森林会议上,两个人和他们的观点发生了碰撞:美国总统罗斯福的代表哈里·德克斯特·怀特(Harry Dexter White)和代表衰落的大英帝国的约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯。怀特提出的机制基于战后美国的贸易盈余,美国用这一盈余让欧洲和日本美元化,作为交换,欧洲和日本默认美国货币政策的完全自由裁量权。毫不奇怪,这一机制取得了胜利。新的战后体系奠定了资本主义全盛时代的基础——直到美国失去了盈余、怀特的安排崩溃。
在过去十年,有一个直观的问题被反复提及:凯恩斯被否定的计划会更适合2008年后的多极世界吗?
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