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Avram Alpert

Avram Alpert

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Avram Alpert, a research fellow at The New Institute in Hamburg, is the author, most recently, of The Good-Enough Life (Princeton University Press, 2022).

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  1. Reviving Hope for the Humanities
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    Reviving Hope for the Humanities

    Apr 4, 2023 Avram Alpert urge university instructors to stop neglecting what students have shown they want and need.

  2. All Are Welcome at the Climate Club
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    All Are Welcome at the Climate Club

    Aug 5, 2022 Avram Alpert & Dennis J. Snower explain why a new German-designed coordination framework can succeed where similar past efforts have failed.

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    Fixing China’s Real-Estate Sector

    Yu Yongding suggests three measures the government can take to address property developers’ deteriorating finances.
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    The New Roots of Anti-Semitism

    Slavoj Žižek worries that Zionist fundamentalism is exacerbating the problem it purports to solve.
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    When Investors Subvert States

    Jayati Ghosh urges policymakers to end the undemocratic practice of allowing multinationals to sue sovereign countries.
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    Accelerating Latin America’s Clean-Energy Revolution

    Patricia Espinosa & Lourdes Melgar tout the huge opportunities and identify the main challenges of the transition to renewables in the region.
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    What Anti-Trumpism Is Missing

    Daron Acemoglu urges Democrats to support working-class interests and priorities after many years of neglect.
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    Beware the New Consensus on the Global Economy

    Mohamed A. El-Erian

    Despite an increasingly challenging economic and geopolitical environment, the global economy performed better than expected over the past year. But although analysts’ projections for 2023 were too pessimistic, it appears that consensus forecasts for the coming year may have have swung too far in the opposite direction.

    worries that domestic political divisions and market volatility could exacerbate financial vulnerabilities.
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    The Future of China’s Financial System

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng assess the outcome of the country’s first Central Financial Work Conference in six years.
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    Mapping the Future of ESG at COP28

    Vijay Bains predicts that the upcoming climate summit in Dubai will build a global consensus on sustainable investing.
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    Cry for Milei’s Argentina

    Paola Subacchi cautions against the incoming leader’s pledge to establish the greenback as the sole legal tender.

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