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  1. Holiday 2024 Reading List
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    Holiday 2024 Reading List

    Nov 26, 2024 PS editors highlight recent recommendations by PS contributors that belong on your holiday shopping list.

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    America’s Tech Blind Spot

    S. Alex Yang & Angela Huyue Zhang

    In recent years, a growing chorus of academics and policymakers has sounded the alarm over the systemic dysfunction of the US tech sector. Yet, despite the high drama of congressional hearings with Big Tech CEOs and a cascade of bills promising comprehensive reforms, the results have been disappointing.

     worry that in its bid to outcompete China, the US risks stifling its own potential for innovation.
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    Protecting Children from Anti-Social Media

    Peter G. Kirchschläger urges countries to emulate Australia and bar young people from addictive online platforms.
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    Democracy Needs Workers

    Bartosz M. Rydliński urges center-left parties in the West to reconnect with voters who increasingly support far-right populists.
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    The World Needs a Pro-Human AI Agenda

    Daron Acemoglu fears that the tech industry’s current priorities will result in the worst of all possible worlds.
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    Big Money Beat Bigger Money in the US Election

    Hippolyte Fofack warns that the ultra-rich are corroding US democracy, even if they can’t always spend their way to power.
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    Europe’s Economy Is Stalling Out

    Kenneth Rogoff

    As Germany and France head into another year of near-zero growth, it is clear that Keynesian stimulus alone cannot pull them out of their current malaise. To regain the dynamism and flexibility needed to weather US President-elect Donald Trump’s tariffs, Europe’s largest economies must pursue far-reaching structural reforms.  

     explains why the EU’s long-term economic slump is not likely to end anytime soon.
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    The Techno-Realist Manifesto

    Nicholas Agar & Stuart Whatley question the widespread belief that all our biggest problems will soon succumb to engineered solutions.
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    Has Angela Merkel No Shame?

    Sławomir Sierakowski marvels at the former German chancellor’s denial of her own role in Europe’s current malaise.
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    Is America the Next Soviet Union?

    Harold James sees parallels between the United States’ political dysfunction and that of its twentieth-century adversary.

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