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Cecilia Elena Rouse

Cecilia Elena Rouse

Writing for PS since 2023
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Cecilia Elena Rouse, former chair of US President Joe Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers, is President of the Brookings Institution.

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  1. America Needs Public Investment in Childcare
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    America Needs Public Investment in Childcare

    Nov 15, 2023 Cecilia Elena Rouse & Lisa Barrow explain why the private sector alone cannot meet young working parents’ needs.

  2. America’s Higher-Education Financing Challenge
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    America’s Higher-Education Financing Challenge

    Jul 27, 2023 Cecilia Elena Rouse identifies a tried-and-tested solution that should command bipartisan support.

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    Trump’s Tariffs and the Will to Power

    Richard K. Sherwin

    Donald Trump views tariffs as much more than a policy. While they will make life materially worse for people around the world – not least Americans – what matters to him is the spectacle of a heroic leader demonstrating his capacity to induce shock and awe.

     thinks those who question the rationality of recent US trade policy are missing the point.
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    Americans Can’t Win from Trump’s Trade War

    Nancy Qian sees only nonsense in the administration's rationale for “reciprocal” tariffs and the formula for setting them.
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    South Korea's Flourishing Culture and Teetering Democracy

    Katharine H.S. Moon

    While the Constitutional Court has upheld President Yoon Suk-yeol’s impeachment and formally removed him from office, South Korea’s fragile democracy is likely to remain on shaky ground. As long as political polarization persists, the threat of authoritarianism will continue to loom large.

     traces the country’s recent turmoil to the lasting impact of the Cold War and decades of military rule.
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    China’s World – or Europe’s?

    Orville Schell urges Europeans to dispel wishful thinking about what the post-American world will require of them.
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    A US Tariff Idea That Makes Sense

    Simon Johnson touts the benefits of a bipartisan Senate bill that would target Russian oil exports.
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    Trump’s Tariffs Will Accelerate America’s Economic Decline

    Kaushik Basu draws parallels between the administration’s policies and those that led to Argentina’s decades-long slump.
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    Trump, Tariffs, and the Fate of the Dollar

    Mark Blyth argues that America’s protectionist policies reflect a global economic reordering that was already underway.
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    Trump’s Old World Order

    Ahmet Davutoğlu warns that the US administration’s reckless conduct may destroy the last vestiges of multilateral cooperation.
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    Crippling America’s Innovation Economy

    William H. Janeway warns that the pillars of US dynamism and competitiveness are being systematically toppled.

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