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Mark Blyth

Mark Blyth

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Mark Blyth, Professor of International Economics and Director of the Rhodes Centre for International Economics and Finance at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, is the co-author (with Nicolò Fraccaroli) of the forthcoming Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers (W. W. Norton & Company, 2025) and the author of Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Oxford University Press, 2015).

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  1. Austerity Is Back – and More Dangerous Than Ever
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    Austerity Is Back – and More Dangerous Than Ever

    Feb 25, 2025 Mark Blyth explains how an old orthodoxy is being put to more openly political and redistributive uses.

  2. End Austerity Now
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    End Austerity Now

    Aug 20, 2013 Mark Blyth

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    Building the Next Generation of Public Institutions

    Geoff Mulgan touts new thinking about how to design agile, flexible, and trustworthy governance mechanisms.
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    Trump the Capitulator

    Carl Bildt considers the broader implications of America's betrayal of Ukraine to appease the Kremlin.
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    What Should Be on the Global Financial Agenda?

    José Antonio Ocampo offers a roadmap for this year's global conferences on “financing for development.”
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    Austerity Is Back – and More Dangerous Than Ever

    Mark Blyth explains how an old orthodoxy is being put to more openly political and redistributive uses.
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    Ian Buruma on Gaza, Trump, authoritarianism, and more

    Ian Buruma says there is no chance US democracy will emerge from Donald Trump’s second administration unscathed, explains why the left is losing the culture war in the US and Europe, touts the enduring importance of the humanities, and more.
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    Europe Is Only as Weak as It Thinks It Is

    Sławomir Sierakowski thinks the rupture with the US has given Europeans what they most need – a reason to get their act together.
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    The Post-Pandemic Fiscal Tightrope

    Hoe Ee Khor, et al. argue that Asian, Latin American, and European economies must somehow reduce deficits while fostering growth.
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    What Germany’s Election Means for the Western Left

    Bartosz M. Rydliński

    Fear of being left behind economically and socially proved to be potent fuel for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland, which for the first time won more votes than the Social Democrats in a German federal election. So long as center-left parties fail to address this fear, the far right will continue to exploit it.

     thinks social-democratic parties will continue to lose unless they find new ways to make inroads with workers.
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    The Global Economy Without America

    Jim O'Neill thinks the Trump administration may convince the rest of the world to rely less on US consumer demand.

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