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Jean Tirole, a Nobel laureate in economics, is a professor at the Toulouse School of Economics.

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  1. Can Europe Create an Innovation Economy?
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    Can Europe Create an Innovation Economy?

    Oct 7, 2024 Philippe Aghion, et al. explain what EU member states must do to stop falling further behind the United States economically.

  2. Keep Politics Out of Europe’s Competition Decisions
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    Keep Politics Out of Europe’s Competition Decisions

    Mar 4, 2019 Patrick Rey & Jean Tirole warn that current Franco-German proposals risk undermining the EU's independent anti-trust authorities.

  3. Macron’s Great Gamble
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    Macron’s Great Gamble

    Jan 21, 2019 Jean Tirole weighs the risks and potential rewards of the French president’s response to the “yellow vest” movement.

  4. Regulating the Disrupters
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    Regulating the Disrupters

    Jan 9, 2019 Jean Tirole offers a blueprint for rethinking antitrust policies, labor laws, and taxation in the age of Big Tech.

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    What African Electrification Requires

    Fatih Birol & Alain Ebobissé highlight the need for greater private-sector participation to boost investments in power grids.
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    How World Order Changes

    Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

    World order is a matter of degree: it varies over time, depending on technological, political, social, and ideological factors that can affect the global distribution of power and influence norms. It can be radically altered both by broader historical trends and by a single major power's blunders.

     examines the role of evolving power dynamics and norms in bringing about stable arrangements among states.
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    Israel’s Blind Spot

    Ian Buruma explains the lack of sympathy, even among the country’s many anti-war protesters, for Palestinian suffering.
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    Will AI Close or Widen the Development Gap?

    Shamika Sirimanne & Xiaolan Fu call for multilateral action and grassroots pressure to ensure that the technology serves all countries.
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    Don’t Let Governments Break Encryption

    Jessica Dickinson Goodman & Ezequiel Passeron Kitroser urge citizens and lawmakers to fight for the privacy that previous generations took for granted.
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    Philanthropy in an Era of Declining Development Aid

    William Moore urges practitioners and policymakers to focus on already proven, scalable solutions.
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    South Africa’s Wrestling Match With Trump

    Adekeye Adebajo considers whether the current G20 president can still advance its agenda in the face of US obstruction.
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    How Aristotle Can Save Us

    Antara Haldar touts a conception of society in which politics and education cultivate the virtue of its members.
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    Trump vs. Europe

    Zaki Laïdi

    Donald Trump has left no doubt that he wants to build an authoritarian, illiberal world order based on traditional spheres of influence and agreements with other illiberal leaders. The only role that the European Union plays in his script is an obstacle that must be pushed aside.

     warns that the European Union has no place in Donald Trump’s illiberal worldview.

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