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    Collective Intelligence and the Common Good

    Mariana Mazzucato worries that a new buzzword is perpetuating a costly myth about how innovation and value creation work.
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    Two Cheers for Identity Politics

    James Livingston argues that critics of the contemporary focus on issues of race, gender, and sexuality are ignoring history.
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    The Economics of Health for All

    Mariana Mazzucato explains why pandemic prevention and preparedness must be embedded in economic policymaking.
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    Governments Must Shape AI’s Future

    Mariana Mazzucato & Fausto Gernone urge policymakers to see themselves as proactive participants in technological innovation and market-making.
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    How to Democratize AI

    Bertrand Badré & Charles Gorintin propose an approach to the technology designed to ensure that its benefits are available to everyone.
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    A Progressive Green Growth Narrative

    Mariana Mazzucato offers a multi-pronged argument to counter the claim that fighting climate change is economically burdensome.
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    Confronting Our Four Biggest Economic Challenges

    Dani Rodrik outlines a broad agenda that national governments and international policymakers should pursue in 2024.
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    There Is No Alternative to Green Industrial Strategy

    Mariana Mazzucato & Greg Clark urge UK leaders to adopt a more comprehensive approach to climate and investment policies.

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    America’s Trade Deficit Is Not Afraid of Donald Trump

    Yanis Varoufakis shows why the incoming US administration can’t eliminate the negative balance – and wouldn’t even if it could.
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    Trump’s Middle East Challenge

    Daoud Kuttab highlights the changes in the region that will complicate the US president-elect's peacemaking efforts.
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    Last Chance for the SDGs?

    Kevin Watkins thinks the fate of the 2030 targets hinges on the next International Development Association replenishment.
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    America’s Tech Blind Spot

    S. Alex Yang & Angela Huyue Zhang

    In recent years, a growing chorus of academics and policymakers has sounded the alarm over the systemic dysfunction of the US tech sector. Yet, despite the high drama of congressional hearings with Big Tech CEOs and a cascade of bills promising comprehensive reforms, the results have been disappointing.

     worry that in its bid to outcompete China, the US risks stifling its own potential for innovation.
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    Protecting Children from Anti-Social Media

    Peter G. Kirchschläger urges countries to emulate Australia and bar young people from addictive online platforms.
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    Democracy Needs Workers

    Bartosz M. Rydliński urges center-left parties in the West to reconnect with voters who increasingly support far-right populists.
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    The World Needs a Pro-Human AI Agenda

    Daron Acemoglu fears that the tech industry’s current priorities will result in the worst of all possible worlds.
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    Big Money Beat Bigger Money in the US Election

    Hippolyte Fofack warns that the ultra-rich are corroding US democracy, even if they can’t always spend their way to power.
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    Europe’s Economy Is Stalling Out

    Kenneth Rogoff

    As Germany and France head into another year of near-zero growth, it is clear that Keynesian stimulus alone cannot pull them out of their current malaise. To regain the dynamism and flexibility needed to weather US President-elect Donald Trump’s tariffs, Europe’s largest economies must pursue far-reaching structural reforms.  

     explains why the EU’s long-term economic slump is not likely to end anytime soon.

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