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Keun Lee

Writing for PS since 2021
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Keun Lee, a former vice chair of the National Economic Advisory Council for the President of South Korea, is Distinguished Professor of Economics at Seoul National University, a fellow at CIFAR, an editor at Research Policy, and the author, most recently, of Innovation-Development Detours for Latecomers: Managing Global-Local Interfaces in the De-Globalization Era (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

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  1. How South Korea Broke the Development Mold
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    How South Korea Broke the Development Mold

    Jun 28, 2024 Keun Lee attributes the country's economic success to the government's willingness to stray from prescribed orthodoxy.

  2. What Fiscally Sound Industrial Policy Can Do
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    What Fiscally Sound Industrial Policy Can Do

    May 2, 2024 Keun Lee highlights three tools that can support domestic-market growth and development without breaking the bank.

  3. Making the Most of FDI
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    Making the Most of FDI

    Feb 22, 2024 Keun Lee considers what it takes to convert foreign investment into growth, development, and technological upgrading.

  4. South Korea and the US-China Rivalry
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    South Korea and the US-China Rivalry

    Dec 22, 2023 Keun Lee shows that, while protectionist policies benefit some firms, the overall effect on third parties is negative.

  5. Time For a Coffee Cartel?
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    Time For a Coffee Cartel?

    Oct 25, 2023 Keun Lee thinks producers in the Global South should consider the option to boost their bargaining power and revenues.

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    Why Young Europeans Are Embracing the Far Right

    Ngaire Woods urges policymakers to reconsider both their message and their medium to reach disaffected younger voters.
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    Rethinking How to Address Irregular Migration from Africa

    Linguère Mously Mbaye calls for a paradigm shift in how immigration policies are discussed, designed, and implemented.
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    The Digital Economy’s Growing Time Tax

    Diane Coyle explains why, instead of simplifying daily life, technological innovation is making it more burdensome.
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    How South Korea Broke the Development Mold

    Keun Lee attributes the country's economic success to the government's willingness to stray from prescribed orthodoxy.
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    The Dominican Success Story

    Iván Duque Márquez attributes President Luis Abinader’s landslide re-election to his pro-business policies and social spending.
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    The Profit Trap

    Jean-Baptiste Wautier

    Purpose must replace profit as the primary objective driving companies and markets. Although restructuring capitalism around this principle may seem like a tall order, it is not only possible but necessary.

     considers why capitalism is creating problems instead of solving them, and how to save the system from itself.
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    From the Washington Consensus to the Berlin Declaration

    Dani Rodrik, et al.

    Dozens of leading economists and practitioners convened in Berlin at the end of May for a summit organized by the Forum for a New Economy. Remarkably, the summit led to something resembling a new understanding that may replace the decades-long reign of neoliberal orthodoxy.

     tout a new understanding by leading economists about what policymakers must do to preempt the populist threat.
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    The Eclipse of the Petrodollar

    Hippolyte Fofack shows how digitalization and geopolitical risk are giving rise to alternative payment mechanisms.
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    Russia’s Triple Win in the South Caucasus

    Djoomart Otorbaev deciphers the causes and implications of the shifting allegiances of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia.

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