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    Are Global Capital Rules Possible?

    Howard Davies thinks major Western jurisdictions' institutional differences could sink standardization efforts.
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    WTO Reform Is Everyone’s Responsibility

    Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala writes that meaningful change will come only when members other than the US help steer the organization.
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    Who’s Afraid of Price Controls?

    Tom Krebs & Isabella M. Weber explain why Germany's economy is paying dearly for the government's failure to cap energy costs in 2022.
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    Democrats Are Better for the US Economy

    Jeffrey Frankel notes that this is no mere correlation, though the cause remains an enduring puzzle.
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    America Needs More Immigration

    Anne O. Krueger points out that sustaining strong economic growth requires newcomers to offset declining birth rates.
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    Mismeasuring Corruption Lets Rich Countries Off the Hook

    Yuen Yuen Ang shows what conventional rankings get wrong, and proposes a better approach to measuring the problem.
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    Tackling the World’s Hidden-Debt Problem

    Pablo Saavedra, et al. propose three measures needed to make lower-income countries’ sovereign borrowing far more transparent.
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    Post-Capitalist Pessimism

    Robert Skidelsky laments the absence of a redemptive political vision adequate to the public's growing economic disillusionment.
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    Giorgia Meloni’s Surprising Success

    Lucrezia Reichlin predicts that the Italian prime minister will have a lasting influence on European politics.
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    Are Global Capital Rules Possible?

    Howard Davies thinks major Western jurisdictions' institutional differences could sink standardization efforts.
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    Business Lessons from the Fall of Icarus

    Vanessa Badré scrutinizes a Flemish masterpiece to glean insights into the challenges of corporate social responsibility.
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    China Tightens Its Grip on Hong Kong

    Chris Patten condemns the latest attempt by the Communist Party’s puppet government to curb democratic freedoms.
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    The Struggle for Currency Supremacy

    Paolo Tasca

    New techno-powered alternative currencies should not be seen as decisive challenges to the US dollar. Instead, they are best understood as pawns in an older game of strategic dominance for which there is no end in sight.

    expects that digital assets will accelerate efforts to create alternatives to the US dollar.
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    The Oligarch, His Ex-Wife, Her Mother, and Rupert Murdoch

    Nina L. Khrushcheva contemplates the media mogul's impending marriage to the Russian biologist Elena Zhukova.
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    The Immigration Tinderbox

    In the United States and Europe, immigration tends to divide people into opposing camps: those who claim that newcomers undermine economic opportunity and security for locals, and those who argue that welcoming migrants and refugees is a moral and economic imperative. How should one make sense of a debate that is often based on motivated reasoning, with emotion and underlying biases affecting the selection and interpretation of evidence?

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    Senegal’s Election and Africa’s Future

    Rabah Arezki considers what Bassirou Diomaye Faye's presidency could mean for one of Africa's most closely watched democracies.
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    America Must Lead on Crypto Regulation

    Dante Alighieri Disparte urges policymakers to take decisive action and set new rules for the industry in 2024.

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