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Clemens Fuest

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Clemens Fuest, President of the Ifo Institute, is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich.

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  1. Climate Adaptation Is as Imperative as Mitigation
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    Climate Adaptation Is as Imperative as Mitigation

    Aug 22, 2024 Clemens Fuest & Maria Waldinger urge governments and businesses to help communities adjust to the inevitable consequences of global warming.

  2. Europe Must Avoid a Subsidy Race
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    Europe Must Avoid a Subsidy Race

    Oct 12, 2022 Clemens Fuest worries that national governments will move ahead with beggar-thy-neighbor energy policies.

  3. How to Tax Energy Companies’ Windfall Profits
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    How to Tax Energy Companies’ Windfall Profits

    Oct 7, 2022 Clemens Fuest & Axel Ockenfels consider the underappreciated difficulties of implementing new levies without creating unwanted side effects.

  4. The ECB’s Toxic Bond-Purchase Program
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    The ECB’s Toxic Bond-Purchase Program

    Jul 27, 2022 Lars P. Feld, et al. warn that the European Central Bank’s new anti-fragmentation instrument risks destabilizing the eurozone.

  5. Don’t Raise the Eurozone’s Public-Debt Limit
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    Don’t Raise the Eurozone’s Public-Debt Limit

    Jun 15, 2022 Clemens Fuest urges policymakers to focus on increasing the quality, not the quantity, of public spending.

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    Ensuring Europe’s Supply of Critical Minerals

    Rüya Perincek & Andreas Goldthau call for coordinated funding, resource diplomacy, and secondary material partnerships to boost recycling.
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    Readying the Resistance, Again

    Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca

    The United States is not a monarchy, but a federal republic. States and cities controlled by Democrats represent half the country, and they can resist Donald Trump’s overreach by using the tools of progressive federalism, many of which were sharpened during his first administration.

     see Democrat-controlled states as a potential check on Donald Trump’s far-right agenda.
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    Russia’s Nostalgia Machine

    Nina L. Khrushcheva explores how the Kremlin relies on an idealized version of the past to comfort – and subdue – the public.
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    The Trade Shifts Redefining Economic Development

    Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg & Michele Ruta consider the long-term implications of three major trends that could reshape globalization.
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    Trump at the Gates

    Joschka Fischer urges Europeans to recognize that they are now on their own in an increasingly dangerous world.
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    The End of Progress?

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.

     predicts that Donald Trump’s second administration will be defined by its rejection of Enlightenment values.
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    China’s Trump Dilemma

    Yanis Varoufakis thinks the real choice facing Chinese leaders may be whether to challenge the dollar's hegemony head-on.
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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.

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