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Anu Bradford

Anu Bradford

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Anu Bradford, Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia Law School, is the author of the forthcoming Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology (Oxford University Press, 2023).

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  1. Whose AI Revolution?
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    Whose AI Revolution?

    Sep 1, 2023 Anu Bradford refutes the argument that democratic governments cannot regulate artificial intelligence effectively.

  2. Anu Bradford on Big Tech, AI, digital regulation, and more
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    Anu Bradford on Big Tech, AI, digital regulation, and more

    Jun 27, 2023 Anu Bradford highlights barriers to US tech regulation, explains why effective implementation of the EU’s AI Act is vital, shows how China is expanding its digital footprint globally, and more.

  3. A Reckoning for Big Tech?
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    A Reckoning for Big Tech?

    Dec 4, 2021 Anu Bradford charts the emergence of a global consensus in favor of regulatory action to rein in the industry's power.

  4. Europe’s Digital Future
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    Europe’s Digital Future

    May 21, 2021 Margrethe Vestager interviewed by Anu Bradford on the thinking behind the European Union's latest wave of digital regulations, and what comes next.

  5. The Brussels Effect on Sustainable Finance
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    The Brussels Effect on Sustainable Finance

    Apr 26, 2021 Kalin Anev Janse & Anu Bradford predict that a new European Union taxonomy for green investment will become a global standard.

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    The Rise of the Finternet

    Agustín Carstens & Nandan Nilekani foresee a world in which cheap, secure, and near-instantaneous financial transactions are available to all.
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    Don’t Fret About Green Subsidies

    Dani Rodrik sees no good argument against industrial policies that accelerate growth in decarbonization industries.
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    Europe’s Geoeconomic Competitiveness Challenge

    Daniel Gros highlights the security risks raised by the prolonged decline of the EU’s relative economic power.
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    How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?

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    While both the American and Chinese Gilded Ages raised material standards of living for hundreds of millions of people, their endemic corruption produced radically unequal and unsustainable growth. Ultimately, both periods offer cautionary tales about unbridled crony capitalism, not models for blind emulation.

    explains how corruption both drove the country's GDP growth and sowed the seeds for its current economic problems.
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    Will India’s Election Destroy Its Democracy?

    Since taking power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have stoked Hindu nationalism, hollowed out India’s democracy, and overseen an economy that is probably performing far worse than official figures suggest. And yet Modi and the BJP are genuinely popular, making them likely – though not certain – to emerge victorious when the ongoing parliamentary election concludes in June.

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Zionism

    Shlomo Ben-Ami warns that demonizing all Israelis will only make peace less likely – though that may be the point.
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    How to Close the Gender Wage Gap

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir argues that Iceland’s experience lends further support to Nobel laureate economist Claudia Goldin’s research.
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    Getting the Pandemic Treaty Across the Finish Line

    Gordon Brown hopes negotiations will conclude this month, and pushes back on a last-minute wave of misinformation.
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    When Is Criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic?

    Peter Singer rejects comparisons of the recent US campus protests to the actions of Nazi student groups in the 1930s.

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