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Jeffrey Frankel

Jeffrey Frankel

Writing for PS since 2000
204 commentaries
2 videos & podcasts

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Jeffrey Frankel, Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University, served as a member of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers. He is a research associate at the US National Bureau of Economic Research.

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  1. The Ideological Looking Glass
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    The Ideological Looking Glass

    Sep 18, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel explains why we must recognize and address our collective tendency toward tribal or conspiratorial thinking.

  2. The End of Zero Interest Rates
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    The End of Zero Interest Rates

    Aug 13, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel explains why central banks will find it challenging to reduce short-term rates anytime soon.

  3. Is the US Economy Headed for a Soft Landing?
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    Is the US Economy Headed for a Soft Landing?

    Jul 17, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel thinks a near-term contraction is unlikely and explains why economic forecasts have been so far off the mark.

  4. America’s Mythical Fiscal Conservatives
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    America’s Mythical Fiscal Conservatives

    Jun 16, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel outlines several steps that US policymakers must take to slow the growth of federal budget deficits and debt.

  5. How to Quench the American West’s Thirst
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    How to Quench the American West’s Thirst

    May 29, 2023 Jeffrey Frankel argues that eliminating water subsidies and implementing market pricing is better than the alternative.

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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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