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One Year Later, We Still Have No Plan to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Destroying ecosystems and the environment “ is the only truly sustainable vaccine against the next pandemic. In other words, it’s time that we stop looking for intelligent life on Mars and start manifesting it here on planet earth” (Friedman 2021).
Green Markets Won’t Save Us
“Although markets are uniquely powerful mechanisms for conveying information and altering behavior, they are ultimately social systems that rest on incomplete and ever-shifting foundations. That makes them an unreliable guide for navigating a problem as large and complex as climate change” (Katharina Pistor, 2021).
How the WTO Changed China
“By most accounts...China’s economic model has not turned toward market liberalism since 2001 but instead consolidated into a form of state capitalism that Beijing hopes to export globally. WTO membership...has allowed China access to the American and other global economies without forcing it to truly change its behavior” (Yeling Tan, 2021).
How Economists and Non-Economists Can Get Along
“Understanding the advantages and limitations of economists’ methods clarifies the value they can add to analysis of non-economic questions. Equally important, it underscores how economists’ approach can complement but never replace alternative, often qualitative methods used in other scholarly disciplines” (Dani Rodrick, 2021).
A Golden Age of Local Digital Stars
The success of ECommerce stars “is evidence of what may be an evolution away from online services as a homogeneous — and largely American-dominated — global blob. And it shows we may now be on the cusp of a golden age for country-specific or regional digital specialists” (Shira Ovide, 2021).
Evolution, Not Revolution, in Economics
“A growing acceptance of aggressive fiscal policy is supposed to be the first principle of a new, post-revolutionary regime in macroeconomics. But the only genuine conceptual change in the decade since the global financial crisis has come from efforts to explain when and why "unconventional" monetary policy works” (Andrés Velasco, 2021).
Growth Is Not Enough
“With an abundance of important and sometimes surprising findings from studies of socioeconomic interventions in recent decades, it is clear that development in the absence of evidence-based policymaking is a fool's errand. The small details matter as much as – and sometimes more than – the economic big picture” (Dhaliwal and Friedlander, 2021).
America’s Other Forever War
“Ideally, America would stop besieging weaker nations because it hurts them. Unfortunately, we’re unlikely to stop until it hurts us” (Peter Beinart, 2021).
Foreign Aid Is Having a Reckoning
“This recent push for change mirrors a trend taking place in philanthropy inside the United States: Leaders of American private foundations are increasingly willing to grapple publicly with the fact that organizations run by Black and brown people face far steeper hurdles to funding than white-run organizations do” (NYT Editorial Board, 2021).
Emerging Economies Have a New Imperative
“The COVID-19 pandemic has forced companies and governments around the world to reconsider long-held assumptions about economic-development strategies. Nowhere is this reckoning more urgent than in export-oriented emerging economies, which now must focus on supply-chain resilience on top of everything else” ( Woetzel and Krishnan, 2021).
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