Tag: Project-Syndicate

Central Banks – Central Banking, Fast and Slow (Mohamed A. El-Erian, Project-Syndicate)

As the global economy emerges from the COVID-19 shock, systemically important central banks are faced with the unenviable task of deciding when and how...

Climate Change/Democratization – The Environmental Republic (Giulio Boccaletti, Project-Syndicate)

Since the dawn of agricultural societies, humans have been developing institutions and technologies to master the natural world and harness its power. The big...

Pandemic Recovery – The Right Advice for the Pandemic Recovery (Koichi Hamada, Project-Syndicate)

As long as there is no major uptick in inflation, central banks would do well to sustain their expansionary monetary policy, but with the...

Latin America – Under the Latin American Volcano (Kenneth Rogoff, Project-Syndicate)

Most of Latin America is still far from the horrific conditions prevailing in Venezuela, where output has fallen by a staggering 75% since 2013....

India – India Looks West (Shashi Tharoor, Project-Syndicate)

A hostile China and the looming US withdrawal from Afghanistan have forced India to rethink its regional strategy. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has...

Colombia – Colombia’s Triple Crisis (Mauricio Cárdenas, Project-Syndicate)

Colombians need political leadership that responds to the current anger in the streets with effective strategies to tackle the country's social and fiscal crises,...

Debt Crisis – The Looming Stagflationary Debt Crisis (Nouriel Roubini, Project-Syndicate)

Years of ultra-loose fiscal and monetary policies have put the global economy on track for a slow-motion train wreck in the coming years. When...

USA/China – MAGA Maoism (J. Bradford DeLong, Project-Syndicate)

What could possess one of America's two main political parties to transform itself into a cult of personality in which obsequiousness trumps merit? An...

Geopolitics – A Little Geopolitics Is a Dangerous Thing (Harold James, Project-Syndicate)

The term geopolitics first came into vogue after Germany's defeat in World War I and has since come to be used as a rationalization...

Globalization – The End of Globalization as We Know It (Jean Pisani-Ferry, Project-Syndicate)

The tension between the unprecedented need for global collective action and a growing aspiration to rebuild political communities behind national borders is a defining...

Climate Revolution/Economics – Economics Needs a Climate Revolution (Tom Brookes, Gernot Wagner, Project-Syndicate)

With its fixation on equilibrium thinking and an exclusive focus on market factors that can be precisely measured, the neoclassical orthodoxy in economics is...

USA – America’s False Imbalance Syndrome (Jeffrey Frankel, Project-Syndicate)

US media often report that a particular policy is generally considered bad or unpopular, when in reality it seeks to achieve a reasonable trade-off...

USA/Fed – Is the Fed Getting Burned Again? (John B. Taylor, Project-Syndicate)

As in the stagflationary 1970s, the US Federal Reserve is once again denying that its own policies are the reason for a recent surge...

USA/Industrial Policy – America’s Muddled Industrial Policy (Anne O. Krueger, Project-Syndicate)

With the US Innovation and Competition Act of 2021, America is fully embracing industrial policy as the all-encompassing solution to a wide range of...

Pandemic/Governance Systems – Pandemics and Political Performance (Francis Fukuyama, Luis Felipe López-Calva, Project-Syndicate)

The huge variation in how countries have performed during the pandemic points to deeper underlying political and governance issues that have now come fully...

Emerging Economies – Three Warnings for Emerging Economies (Kaushik Basu, Project-Syndicate)

The most recent World Bank outlook for emerging markets and developing economies is especially significant because of the cautionary messages it contains. Whereas rich...