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Eric Posner

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Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is the author of How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford University Press, 2021).

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  1. Banning Trump
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    Banning Trump

    Sep 15, 2023 Eric Posner sees problems with using the Fourteenth Amendment to disqualify the former president from the ballot in 2024.

  2. The Politics of the Trump Trials
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    The Politics of the Trump Trials

    Aug 9, 2023 Eric Posner offers a preview of the political, partisan, and procedural factors that will matter most.

  3. The Trump Indictment and America’s Political Order
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    The Trump Indictment and America’s Political Order

    Jun 14, 2023 Eric Posner considers the deeper structural causes and likely consequences of prosecuting a former president.

  4. Facebook's Foreign Disasters
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    Facebook's Foreign Disasters

    Nov 5, 2021 Eric Posner thinks US policymakers should consider reforms to rein in the company in countries that can't do it themselves.

  5. The Justices Doth Protest Too Much
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    The Justices Doth Protest Too Much

    Oct 7, 2021 Eric Posner thinks US Supreme Court justices should avoid mounting populist defenses against populist attacks.

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    Putin and Kim’s Cartoon Summit

    Nina L. Khrushcheva thinks that Russia's recent meeting with North Korea was intended primarily as a warning to the South.
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    Saudi Arabia’s New Nationalism

    Bernard Haykel explains the reasoning behind the Kingdom's ongoing domestic- and foreign-policy transformation.
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    The Green Growth Mindset

    Gernot Wagner sees doctrinaire debates about capitalism as irrelevant or even deleterious to the decarbonization effort.
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    Africa Is the Future of Multilateralism

    Mark Malloch-Brown explains why the continent should be at the forefront of efforts to bring about international reforms.
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    A Chinese Bubble Long in the Making

    Yi Fuxian

    The Chinese government is very good at covering up small problems, but these often pile up into much bigger ones that can no longer be ignored. The current real-estate bubble is a case in point, casting serious doubts not just on the wisdom of past policies but also on China's long-term economic future.

     traces the long roots of the country's mounting economic and financial problems.
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    Industrial Policy Is Back

    From semiconductors to electric vehicles, governments are identifying the strategic industries of the future and intervening to support them – abandoning decades of neoliberal orthodoxy in the process. Are industrial policies the key to tackling twenty-first-century economic challenges or a recipe for market distortions and lower efficiency?

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    Is AI a Master or Slave?

    Joschka Fischer wonders whether humanity can even hope to maintain control in an era of “mega-crisis.”
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    Laying Chicago Economics to Rest

    Antara Haldar

    From breakthroughs in behavioral economics to mounting evidence in the real world, there is good reason to think that the economic orthodoxy of the past 50 years now has one foot in the grave. The question is whether the mainstream economics profession has gotten the memo.

     looks back on 50 years of neoclassical economic orthodoxy and the damage it has wrought.
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    America’s Broken Civic Bargain

    J. Bradford DeLong worries that Republicans have abandoned one of the core principles that sustains a democracy over time.

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