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Diane Coyle

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Diane Coyle, Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, is the author of the forthcoming The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters (Princeton University Press, April 1, 2025).

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  1. Diane Coyle on innovation, AI, economic data, and more
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    Diane Coyle on innovation, AI, economic data, and more

    Mar 11, 2025 Diane Coyle suggests ways to account for “free” digital services in economic frameworks, considers how to prevent the emergence of AI monopolies, warns that cutting funding for basic research is tantamount to destroying the US economy’s foundations, and more.

  2. Musk and DOGE Are Doing It Wrong
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    Musk and DOGE Are Doing It Wrong

    Mar 5, 2025 Diane Coyle highlights the fundamental flaw in the Trump administration’s push to cut red tape and curb wasteful spending.

  3. Successful Industrial Policy Requires Industry Experts
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    Successful Industrial Policy Requires Industry Experts

    Dec 10, 2024 Diane Coyle thinks governments need to rebuild capacities they abandoned decades ago.

  4. Diane Coyle on economic progress, tech monopolies, artificial intelligence, and more
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    Diane Coyle on economic progress, tech monopolies, artificial intelligence, and more

    Oct 22, 2024 Diane Coyle advocates a new public philosophy that rejects viewing “government” and “market” as opposites, explains why time-use data must shape technological development, warns that policymakers are devising AI regulation in a thick conceptual fog, and more.

  5. Will the AI Revolution Lead to Greater Prosperity?
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    Will the AI Revolution Lead to Greater Prosperity?

    Aug 26, 2024 Diane Coyle explains why transformative technologies may not translate into measurable economic benefits.

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    What Trump’s Tariff Critics Are Getting Wrong

    Lori Wallach laments the Democratic Party’s misguided criticism of a potentially effective policy tool.
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    Europe’s Security Depends on a European Energy Union

    Ana Palacio advocates a pragmatic approach to reviving the EU’s competitiveness and bolstering its strategic autonomy.
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    Authoritarianism Is Turkey’s Biggest Economic Risk

    Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan

    More than just a popular mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu is a national symbol of the political pluralism and democratic possibility that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sought to quash. Given the precarious state of the Turkish economy, his sudden arrest and imprisonment may prove to be the last straw.

     believes the current mass protests are about more than the arrest of the country’s leading opposition figure.
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    Asia Must Unite to Survive Trump 2.0

    Lee Jong-Wha highlights ways the region's economies can boost their resilience and global influence.
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    Europe and the Next World Order

    Sigmar Gabriel & Peter Eitel observe that the continent has once again become the fulcrum of global politics.
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    Trump’s $16 Trillion Trade Blind Spot

    Ricardo Hausmann identifies the fundamental flaw in the administration’s efforts to dismantle the postwar international order.
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    A World Turned Inside Out

    Stephen S. Roach

    The geostrategic shock that has accompanied Donald Trump’s return to the White House is the functional equivalent of a full-blown crisis. It is likely to have a lasting impact on the US and Chinese economies, and the contagion is almost certain to spread throughout the world through cross-border trade and capital flows.

     likens Donald Trump’s reversal of America’s global leadership role to a full-blown crisis, similar to COVID-19.
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    Jorge Heine on the BRICS, active non-alignment, the US dollar, and more

    Jorge Heine urges the Organization of American States to demonstrate leadership in Haiti, shows how small countries can implement a foreign policy based on active non-alignment, calls on China and Europe to diversify the global monetary system, and more.
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    Financial Inclusion Must Reach the Last Billion

    Wolfgang Fengler explains why economic growth alone is not enough to extend the ladder of opportunity to all.

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