Tag: Project-Syndicate

Afghanistan/USA – Blood in the Sand (Project-Syndicate)

JEFFREY D. SACHS For decades, the American political class has intervened relentlessly and recklessly in countries whose people they hold in contempt. And once again...

Afghanistan/USA – Pax Americana Died in Kabul (Project-Syndicate)

BRAHMA CHELLANEY The unraveling of the effort to build a democratic, secular Afghanistan will pose a far greater threat to the free world than Syria’s...

Afghanistan – Terror and the Taliban (Project-Syndicate)

FAWAZ A. GERGES The world should not ignore the risk that Afghanistan under the Taliban could become a breeding ground for international terrorism. But nor...

Afghanistan/USA – America’s Withdrawal of Choice (Project-Syndicate)

RICHARD HAASS The swift fall of Kabul recalls the ignominious fall of Saigon in 1975. Beyond the local consequences – widespread reprisals, harsh repression of...

Poland/Donald Tusk – The Tusk Effect (Project-Syndicate)

SŁAWOMIR SIERAKOWSKI Within weeks of returning to Polish domestic politics, former European Council president Donald Tusk has already emerged as the father of the opposition...

Global/Big Tech – Big Tech Flies Too Much (Project-Syndicate)

RICHARD GOKRUN Five of the ten largest buyers of corporate air travel in the US are technology companies. Microsoft and other Big Tech firms owe...

Europe/Artificial Intelligence – The Missing Link in Europe’s AI Strategy (Project-Syndicate)

AIDA PONCE DEL CASTILLO Europe can become a global leader in artificial intelligence, but only if it protects its citizens and involves workers in the...

Carbon Price/Climate Change – The Carbon Price Conundrum (Project-Syndicate)

KEMAL DERVIŞ The race between climate change and emissions reductions remains tight. Limiting the damage already done will require the use of all available tools...

Global – The Rich World’s Super-Spreader Shame (Project-Syndicate)

NGAIRE WOODS, ANNA PETHERICK G20 countries have failed the rest of the world during the pandemic, not least by serving as viral super spreaders. To make...

Germany – Germany’s Homegrown Q Menace (Project-Syndicate)

HELMUT K. ANHEIER On August 1, 2020, about 30,000 people gathered in Berlin to protest against COVID-19 lockdown measures. Although the event, organized by the Stuttgart-based Querdenker...

Global/Pandemic – The Political Lessons of COVID-19 (Project-Syndicate)

Luigi Zingales writes: If an evil mind were to engineer the perfect virus to wipe out an animal species, it would choose the optimal...

Global Pandemic – The Summer of Disaster (Project-Syndicate)

J. BRADFORD DELONG writes: The world is facing two disasters that are making the COVID-19 crisis doubly worse than it ought to be. The...

Central Banks/Inequality – Are Central Banks to Blame for Rising Inequality? (Project-Syndicate)

KENNETH ROGOFF writes: Judging by the number of times phrases such as “equitable growth” and “the distributional footprint of monetary policy” appear in central...

Global/Economics – Are Economists in Love with Tough Love? (Project-Syndicate)

RICARDO HAUSMANN writes:  Mark Twain purportedly said that “History never repeats itself, but it rhymes.” Typically, however, what rhymes is not the underlying historical facts but...

China – China’s Unavoidable Financial Rise (Project-Syndicate)

ZHANG JUN writes: A decade ago, few economists were bullish about the growth of China’s external financial strength. But the government’s commitment to capital-market...

Global – Preventing a Stablecoin Liquidity Crisis (Project-Syndicate)

ANDRÉS VELASCO writes: There is no sound argument for applying lender-of-last-resort protection to privately issued cryptocurrencies. But regulators can prevent the all-too-predictable liquidity squeeze...