Tag: Project-Syndicate

(Italy/Europe/Mario Draghi) The Draghi Power Triangle (Project-Syndicate)

MELVYN KRAUSS Italy's new prime minister, Mario Draghi, is not solely someone whose credibility in financial markets can lower the Italian borrowing costs and boost...

(Cities) Are Cities Finished? (Project-Syndicate)

CARLO RATTI, RICHARD FLORIDA Far from rendering cities obsolete, as some predicted early on, the pandemic has unlocked an ever-broader potential for renaissance – what the...

(USA) America Is (Sort of) Back (Project-Syndicate)

SHLOMO BEN-AMI From its botched pandemic response to the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, America’s political dysfunction has lately been on stark...

(India) India’s Farm Laws Are a Global Problem (Project-Syndicate)

KAUSHIK BASU Market fundamentalism never works as well as actual markets do, because it offers “choices” that no one would willingly choose. The Indian government...

(Economic Policy) The Silent Revolution in Economic Policy (Project-Syndicate)

ROBERT SKIDELSKY With Western economies battered by COVID-19 and central banks running out of ammunition, fiscal policy is the only game in town. This should...

(USA/Politics) Impeachment’s Partisan Doom (Project-Syndicate)

ELIZABETH DREW The US Senate has failed to convict former President Donald Trump for inciting insurrection on January 6. This outcome raises the question as...

(Europe/Palestine/Israel) To Revive the Two-State Solution, Europe Must Recognize Palestine (Project-Syndicate)

DAOUD KUTTAB If the European Union truly wants to drive progress toward peace between Israel and Palestine, it must show courage and conviction. That means...

(Europe/Post-Pandemic) Europe’s Ambitious Parochialism (Project-Syndicate)

JAYATI GHOSH The idea that the European Union can save itself and emerge from the COVID-19 crisis while the rest of the world flounders will...

(Pandemic) Closing the COVID Trust Deficit (Project-Syndicate)

PASCALINE DUPAS, JOSEPH DOYLE, KAREN MACOURS Economists have developed an emerging body of evidence that holds important lessons for overcoming COVID-19 information constraints, combating misinformation, and building...

(USA/Economics/Climate Change) Getting the Social Cost of Carbon Right (Project-Syndicate)

NICHOLAS STERN, JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ US President Joe Biden's administration must put a high enough price on carbon pollution to encourage the scale and urgency of...

(Bitcoin) Schrödinger’s Bitcoin (Project-Syndicate)

WILLEM H. BUITER Notwithstanding the recent spectacular surge in its price, Bitcoin will remain an asset without intrinsic value whose market value can be anything...

(Russia/Alexey Navalny) Can Navalny Take Down Putin? (Project-Syndicate)

NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA Unlike the protests that roiled Russia in 2011-12 in response to Vladimir Putin’s third presidency, today’s protest movement has a charismatic and...

(Ethiopia/UN) The UN Must Intervene in Tigray (Project-Syndicate)

MEHARI TADDELE MARU When a state fails to prevent or alleviate atrocities within its territory, or if the state itself is the primary perpetrator of...

(Myanmar) Don’t Isolate Myanmar (Project-Syndicate)

BRAHMA CHELLANEY https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/isolation-and-sanctions-wrong-strategy-for-myanmar-coup-by-brahma-chellaney-2021-02

(Global Recovery) The Perils of an Uneven Global Recovery (Project-Syndicate)

KENNETH ROGOFF https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/covid19-uneven-global-recovery-emerging-market-risks-by-kenneth-rogoff-2021-02

(Governance) From Moonshots to Earthshots (Project-Syndicate)

MARIANA MAZZUCATO https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/moonshots-earthshots-state-investment-in-the-public-interest-by-mariana-mazzucato-2021-02