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    How China Views the US Presidential Election

    Ian Bremmer

    Though Chinese leaders are watching the US presidential election closely, they have already convinced themselves that the next American administration will be antagonistic. Will they respond with relative quiescence or pursue a more aggressive strategy?

     considers Chinese leaders' options as they prepare for a new administration in 2025.
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    The AI Safety Debate Is All Wrong

    Daron Acemoglu

    Today's anxiety about the risks posed by artificial intelligence reflects a tendency to anthropomorphize AI and causes us to focus on the wrong issues. Since any technology can be used for good or bad, what ultimately matters is who controls it, what their objectives are, and what kind of regulations they are subjected to.

     thinks the inordinate attention on sci-fi doomsday scenarios is distracting from more immediate risks.
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    America’s Deficit Attention Disorder

    Maurice Obstfeld thinks the accumulation of public debt is a far more urgent problem than the trade balance.
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    Collective Intelligence and the Common Good

    Mariana Mazzucato worries that a new buzzword is perpetuating a costly myth about how innovation and value creation work.
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    AI Complacency Is Compromising Western Defense

    Charles Ferguson thinks America and its allies are woefully unprepared for a future of autonomous weapons and warfare.
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    Is Greece’s Six-Day Work Week a Harbinger?

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg points out that the country is facing the same demographic problem as almost all advanced economies.
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    China Must Rein in Local Governments

    Huang Yiping warns that these entities are now the greatest source of market distortion and financial risk in the country.
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    Impunity for Authoritarians Fuels Political Violence

    Maciej Kisilowski explains why allowing corrupt leaders to evade justice can stoke public fear and discontent.
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    Confronting the Organized Crime Pandemic

    Robert Muggah shows that the problem has exploded and gone global, demanding a more robust multilateral response.
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  1. How China Views the US Presidential Election
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    How China Views the US Presidential Election

    Aug 5, 2024 Ian Bremmer considers Chinese leaders' options as they prepare for a new administration in 2025.

  2. AI Complacency Is Compromising Western Defense
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    AI Complacency Is Compromising Western Defense

    Aug 5, 2024 Charles Ferguson thinks America and its allies are woefully unprepared for a future of autonomous weapons and warfare.

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    Collective Intelligence and the Common Good

    Aug 5, 2024 Mariana Mazzucato worries that a new buzzword is perpetuating a costly myth about how innovation and value creation work.

  4. America’s Deficit Attention Disorder
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    America’s Deficit Attention Disorder

    Aug 5, 2024 Maurice Obstfeld thinks the accumulation of public debt is a far more urgent problem than the trade balance.

  5. The AI Safety Debate Is All Wrong
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    The AI Safety Debate Is All Wrong

    Aug 5, 2024 Daron Acemoglu thinks the inordinate attention on sci-fi doomsday scenarios is distracting from more immediate risks.

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    Confronting the Organized Crime Pandemic

    Robert Muggah shows that the problem has exploded and gone global, demanding a more robust multilateral response.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    Mordecai Kurz on market power, Big Tech, antitrust, and more

    Mordecai Kurz explains how technology firms abuse patent law to establish and preserve monopolies, criticizes the US Supreme Court’s approach to market power, sheds light on the relationship between innovation and inequality, and more.
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    The Euro and Its Imperial Ancestors

    Victoria Gierok draws lessons from earlier experiments with common currencies across disparate polities and economies.
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    The Way Forward for Ukraine’s Economy

    Joseph E. Stiglitz & Andrew Kosenko offer a roadmap for guiding the country's recovery and reconstruction during and after the war.
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    Joseph E. Stiglitz on inflation, freedom, neoliberalism, and more

    Joseph E. Stiglitz highlights four inflation risks associated with another Donald Trump administration, explains what US Republicans get wrong about freedom, identifies the principles that should guide a post-neoliberal agenda, and more.

It is both the best and the worst of times for democracy – or at least for voting. Although a record-breaking four billion people across 76 countries will have cast ballots in elections this year, democratic institutions are increasingly under strain, and leading watchdogs warn of a broad-based global trend toward “autocratization.”

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    Disaster Response Isn’t Keeping Up with the Climate Crisis

    Pepukaye Bardouille highlights the need for an emergency liquidity mechanism accessible to all vulnerable countries.
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    The Dead Hand of Neoliberalism Is Blocking Green Growth

    Laura Carvalho sees rich countries pursuing industrial strategies while poorer countries are prevented from following suit.
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    Rebooting the Sustainable Development Goals

    John W. McArthur & Zia Khan urge political, business, and civil-society leaders to foster the big ideas needed to meet the 2030 targets.

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  4. Renata Narita High Labor Turnover Fuels Inequality in Latin America

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  2. Tom Achoki The Critical-Minerals Race Could Fuel Global Inequality
  3. Kevin Watkins How the G20 Could Help Eliminate Hunger and Extreme Poverty
  4. Renzo R. Guinto Preparing for a Future of Extreme Heat Waves

  1. Pepukaye Bardouille Disaster Response Isn’t Keeping Up with the Climate Crisis
  2. Lucrezia Reichlin Can Central Banks Still Go Green?
  3. Laura Carvalho The Dead Hand of Neoliberalism Is Blocking Green Growth
  4. John W. McArthur, et al. Rebooting the Sustainable Development Goals

  1. Charles Ferguson AI Complacency Is Compromising Western Defense
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  4. Nishant Lalwani, et al. As Disinformation Thrives, Democracy Dies

Africa’s economic rise is a world-changing development, but the sources of its emerging strength – and lingering weaknesses – are little understood. W…

  1. Paola Subacchi A Growth Agenda for the G20
  2. Adekeye Adebajo Africa’s Hobbled Hegemons
  3. Linguère Mously Mbaye Rethinking How to Address Irregular Migration from Africa

Today’s media landscape is littered with landmines: open hostility from illiberal and autocratic regimes, mounting censorship in countries such as Hungary, Turkey,…

  1. Nishant Lalwani, et al. As Disinformation Thrives, Democracy Dies
  2. Antonio Zappulla To Protect Democracy, Protect Exiled Journalists
  3. Jodie Ginsberg Our Freedoms Depend on Press Freedom

As the COVID-19 crisis escalates, PS commentators assess its implications for the economy, propose policy responses, and consider what might – and sho…

  1. Winnie Byanyima, et al. How to Protect the World from the Next Pandemic
  2. Tom Achoki, et al. Preparing Now for the Next Disease X
  3. Mariana Mazzucato The Economics of Health for All