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  1. Manica Balasegaram

    Manica Balasegaram

    Writing for PS since 2023
    2 Commentaries

    Manica Balasegaram is Executive Director of the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership.

  2. Pranab Bardhan

    Pranab Bardhan

    Writing for PS since 2010
    13 Commentaries

    Pranab Bardhan, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author, most recently, of A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries (Harvard University Press, 2022).

  3. Silke Bollmohr

    Silke Bollmohr

    Writing for PS since 2022
    2 Commentaries

    Silke Bollmohr, Founder of EcoTrac Consulting, is Senior Policy Adviser for Global Food Policy and Agriculture at INKOTA netzwerk.

  4. Ian Bremmer

    Ian Bremmer

    Writing for PS since 2006
    30 Commentaries

    Ian Bremmer, Founder and President of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, is a member of the Executive Committee of the UN High-level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence.

  5. Todd G. Buchholz

    Todd G. Buchholz

    Writing for PS since 2019
    16 Commentaries

    Todd G. Buchholz, a former White House director of economic policy under President George H.W. Bush and managing director of the Tiger hedge fund, is the recipient of the Harvard Department of Economics’ Allyn Young Teaching Prize. He is the author of New Ideas from Dead Economists (Plume, 2021), The Price of Prosperity (Harper, 2016), and co-author of the musical Glory Ride.

  6. Eleanor Carter

    Eleanor Carter

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Eleanor Carter is Academic Co-Director of the Government Outcomes Lab at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government.

  7. James Carter

    James Carter

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    James Carter is a former deputy undersecretary of labor at the US Labor Department and deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the US Treasury Department.

  8. Debasish Roy Chowdhury

    Debasish Roy Chowdhury

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Debasish Roy Chowdhury is the co-author (with John Keane) of To Kill A Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism (Oxford University Press, 2021).

  9. Gaurav Dalmia

    Gaurav Dalmia

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Gaurav Dalmia is Chairman of Dalmia Group Holdings, a leading Indian investment company.

  10. Tatyana Deryugina

    Tatyana Deryugina

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Tatyana Deryugina is Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

  11. Anastassia Fedyk

    Anastassia Fedyk

    Writing for PS since 2022
    7 Commentaries

    Anastassia Fedyk is Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of California, Berkeley.

  12. Teresa Ghilarducci

    Teresa Ghilarducci

    Writing for PS since 2018
    7 Commentaries

    Teresa Ghilarducci is Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research.

  13. Jodie Ginsberg

    Jodie Ginsberg

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Jodie Ginsberg is CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit organization working worldwide to ensure that journalists can report freely and safely.

  14. Carolyn J. Heinrich

    Carolyn J. Heinrich

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Carolyn J. Heinrich is Professor of Public Policy, Education, and Economics at Vanderbilt University.

  15. Nancy Isenberg

    Nancy Isenberg

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Nancy Isenberg, Emeritus Professor of History at Louisiana State University, is the author of Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality, and White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (Penguin Books).

  16. Rainer Kattel

    Rainer Kattel

    Writing for PS since 2021
    2 Commentaries

    Rainer Kattel is Deputy Director and Professor of Innovation and Public Governance at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.

  17. Alison L. LaCroix

    Alison L. LaCroix

    Writing for PS since 2022
    4 Commentaries

    Alison L. LaCroix, a former member of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, is Professor of Law and an associate member of the History Department at the University of Chicago and the author of the forthcoming The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms (Yale University Press, May 2024).

  18. Sania Nishtar

    Sania Nishtar

    Writing for PS since 2013
    8 Commentaries

    Sania Nishtar is CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.

  19. Eric Posner

    Eric Posner

    Writing for PS since 2019
    31 Commentaries

    Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is the author of How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford University Press, 2021).

  20. Harun Warui

    Harun Warui

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Harun Warui is Project Lead of the Route to Food Initiative at the Heinrich Böll Foundation office in Nairobi.

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    Why China Provides Evidence for Optimists and Pessimists Alike

    Zhang Jun explains why rigorous, evidence-based assessments of the economy's performance can diverge sharply.
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    The Zero-Sum Logic Fueling the Rise of Germany’s Far Right

    Dalia Marin thinks that promoting economic growth remains the most effective antidote to nativist sentiments.
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    Argentina’s Inflation Paradoxes

    Andrés Velasco asks whether President Javier Milei's administration can sustain its initial economic-policy successes.
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    The Privileged Gaza Protesters

    Ian Buruma argues that fear of losing rank could be driving students to demonstrate their intersectional bona fides.
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    What Mission-Driven Government Means

    Mariana Mazzucato & Rainer Kattel

    Mission-driven government, based on an historically informed understanding of what policymakers are capable of doing for the common good, is critical in today’s world. While it need not follow a fixed path, it does call for fundamental changes to longstanding processes and assumptions.

    correct common misconceptions about a particular form of state participation in the economy.
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    The Psychologist Who Convinced Economists that to Err Is Human

    Antara Haldar reflects on the pioneering work and legacy of one of the world’s most influential social scientists.
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    Will the Renewed US Support for Ukraine Be Enough?

    Ian Bremmer

    Sixteen months of congressional inaction in the United States has left Ukrainian forces exhausted and short on ammo. Although America has now finally enacted another package of financial and military aid, the best that the Ukrainians can hope for is another stalemate, rather than another major offensive against Russian lines.

    explains how an additional $61 billion in aid and arms will, and will not, change the course of the war.
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    The Lasting Legacy of Abenomics

    Koichi Hamada highlights two important aspects of the late Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō’s policy agenda.
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    Fertilizers Will Not Fix Africa’s Food Crisis

    Silke Bollmohr & Harun Warui refute the idea that industrial inputs will increase yields and alleviate hunger on the continent.

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