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 Jean Tirole

Jean Tirole

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Jean Tirole, the 2014 Nobel laureate in economics, is Honorary Chairman of the Toulouse School of Economics and Chairman of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. His most recent book is Economics for the Common Good.

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  1. Keep Politics Out of Europe’s Competition Decisions
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    Keep Politics Out of Europe’s Competition Decisions

    Mar 4, 2019 Patrick Rey & Jean Tirole warn that current Franco-German proposals risk undermining the EU's independent anti-trust authorities.

  2. Macron’s Great Gamble
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    Macron’s Great Gamble

    Jan 21, 2019 Jean Tirole weighs the risks and potential rewards of the French president’s response to the “yellow vest” movement.

  3. Regulating the Disrupters
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    Regulating the Disrupters

    Jan 9, 2019 Jean Tirole offers a blueprint for rethinking antitrust policies, labor laws, and taxation in the age of Big Tech.

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    Why Voters Are Unhappy About the Biden Economy

    Michael J. Boskin explains why Americans do not share the White House’s rosy assessment of its economic track record.
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    Our Freedoms Depend on Press Freedom

    Jodie Ginsberg warns that the increased targeting of journalists and the media is a key indicator of democratic erosion.
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    Climate Change Is a Worse Health Threat Than We Think

    Manica Balasegaram warns that the world is underestimating the extent to which global warming will fuel antimicrobial resistance.
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    Musk Has Made Tesla a Meme Stock

    J. Bradford DeLong

    Although Tesla appears to be wildly overvalued compared to rival automakers, its shareholders are betting that they can sell their holdings to a greater fool in the near future, and Elon Musk is eagerly indulging their speculative exuberance. None of it bodes well for company’s workers, suppliers, and other customers.

    worries that the first mover in electric vehicles is increasingly running on bucket-shop hype.
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    The US Treasury’s Bond Blunder Will Cost Gen Z Dearly

    Todd G. Buchholz & James Carter thinks the US should have locked in favorable borrowing rates when it had the chance.
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    What’s Driving the Global Gold Rush?

    Harold James considers the political factors pushing the price of the “barbarous relic” to all-time highs.
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    Global Elections in the Shadow of Neoliberalism

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    While scandals, culture wars, and threats to democracy dominate the headlines, the biggest issues in this super election year ultimately concern economic policies. After all, the rise of anti-democratic populist authoritarianism is itself the legacy of a misbegotten economic ideology.

    considers what 40 years of anti-government, low-tax, deregulatory advocacy have wrought around the world.
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    Averting Climate Catastrophe Requires Economic Growth

    Alessio Terzi & Gernot Wagner show why shrinking the global economy, as envisaged by advocates of degrowth, is a bad way to cut emissions.
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    Banned By Germany

    Yanis Varoufakis sees in his case an effort to enforce with repression a pro-Israel political consensus that is breaking down.

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