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Antara Haldar

Antara Haldar

Writing for PS since 2019
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Antara Haldar, Associate Professor of Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge, is a visiting faculty member at Harvard University and the principal investigator on a European Research Council grant on law and cognition.

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  1. The Bloody Path of Alberto Fujimori’s Neoliberalism
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    The Bloody Path of Alberto Fujimori’s Neoliberalism

    Oct 4, 2024 Antara Haldar assesses the former Peruvian president’s legacy of free-market reform and death-squad dictatorship.

  2. What Microfinance Can Teach Economists
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    What Microfinance Can Teach Economists

    Aug 29, 2024 Antara Haldar considers lessons from Bangladesh’s recent history of political tumult and financial experimentation.

  3. What Democrats Can Learn from the Science of Cooperation
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    What Democrats Can Learn from the Science of Cooperation

    Jul 24, 2024 Antara Haldar thinks a failure to unite fully behind Kamala Harris will give the Republicans a big advantage.

  4. Britain’s Dangerous Migration Fixation
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    Britain’s Dangerous Migration Fixation

    Jul 3, 2024 Antara Haldar argues that failed Tory policies, not migrants, are undermining the economy’s future prospects.

  5. Still Haunted by the Washington Consensus
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    Still Haunted by the Washington Consensus

    May 31, 2024 Antara Haldar thinks the old one-size-fits-all model is still causing problems, despite having been discredited.

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    Making Biodiversity Credits Work

    Almir Narayamoga Suruí & Simon Zadek suggest how to realize the potential of this innovative mechanism for financing nature conservation.
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    Polish Democracy’s Winter of Discontent

    Sławomir Sierakowski explains why enthusiasm for the country’s ruling coalition has waned over the past year.
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    What Remote Work Can Do for Global Development

    Charles Ferguson points out that the decoupling of economic activity from geographic location has only just begun.
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    Saving Democracy from Itself

    Slavoj Žižek applauds French President Emmanuel Macron’s maneuvering to keep the far right at bay.
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    First Trump Came for the Immigrants

    Nina L. Khrushcheva warns that mass deportations will carry high costs, not just for the economy, but for America’s soul.
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    Will the IMF Survive to 100?

    Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr. & Robert H. Wade

    The World Trade Organization's precipitous decline into irrelevance should serve as a warning to the International Monetary Fund's shareholder governments, its management, and everyone who values multilateral economic cooperation. In a rapidly changing world, global institutions must reform or die.

     propose incremental changes to keep developing and emerging economies on board and engaged.
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    European Security Cannot Be Found in the Past

    Friedrich Merz

    The old Europe of the Cold War sought comfort in the past and confidence in the solitary US leadership that defined the era. Unfortunately, when it comes to its own security, Europe seemingly remains in a time warp, stuck somewhere before 1989.

     laments that nostalgia for US leadership unites a continent that must define the decisive action needed now.
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    The Biodiversity Crisis Is a Security Crisis

    Hailemariam Desalegn urges governments to recognize that the degradation of ecosystems poses a major threat to global stability.
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    The US Election and the Crisis of Whiteness

    Edoardo Campanella sees long-term demographic trends driving the country’s increasingly divisive politics.

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