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Minouche Shafik

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Minouche Shafik, a former president of Columbia University and the London School of Economics, is a member of the House of Lords and the author of What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society (Princeton University Press, 2021).

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  1. World Order in a Time of Monsters
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    World Order in a Time of Monsters

    Feb 7, 2025 Minouche Shafik highlights the critical importance of reinvigorating social contracts at the national level.

  2. The Pandemic and Our Broken Social Contracts
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    The Pandemic and Our Broken Social Contracts

    Jan 21, 2022 Minouche Shafik shows why confronting problems like COVID-19 will require a broader political overhaul.

  3. Toward a New Social Contract
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    Toward a New Social Contract

    Dec 26, 2019 Minouche Shafik explains how welfare states will need to change to manage demographic, technological, and economic pressures.

  4. Restoring Trust in Expertise
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    Restoring Trust in Expertise

    Mar 1, 2017 Minouche Shafik proposes several steps to revive public trust in those shaping consequential policy decisions.

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    Resisting Digital Feudalism

    Mariana Mazzucato calls for urgent action to shape the development of AI before it becomes another means of rent extraction.
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    World Order in a Time of Monsters

    Minouche Shafik

    A stable and cooperative global order cannot be built without first repairing broken national social contracts. While unequal and anxious countries become fertile ground for nationalism and selfishness, prosperous economies are more likely to foster generosity and support for international cooperation.

     highlights the critical importance of reinvigorating social contracts at the national level.
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    How Not to Respond to Trump’s Tariffs

    Dani Rodrik advises America’s trade partners not to embrace retaliation, because that would harm mainly themselves.
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    Europe Found Its Values and Lost Its Way

    Jean-Pierre Landau warns that the EU’s focus on high-level principles is undermining its economic dynamism and global influence.
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    The Crisis in Western AI Is Real

    Charles Ferguson

    Given the risks involved in the race for AI dominance, maintaining a strong lead within democratic advanced economies justifies a public-private strategic mobilization on the scale of the Manhattan Project. Yet the West is doing the opposite, largely owing to its own AI industry’s arrogance, shortsightedness, and greed.

     thinks the US industry bears a considerable share of the blame for China’s DeepSeek breakthrough.
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    “America First” in Action

    Peter Singer assesses the damage Donald Trump has already done to long-term US interests since returning to the White House.
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    Technofeudalism Is War’s Handmaiden

    Yanis Varoufakis explains how the rise of cloud capital is steering the world toward well-known strategic traps.
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    The Positive Case for Negative Rates

    Willem H. Buiter & Ebrahim Rahbari see the widely scorned monetary-policy tool as a necessary option in the absence of fiscal alternatives.
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    Will DeepSeek Upend US Tech Dominance?

    Angela Huyue Zhang says the firm’s disruption of the AI industry is about market – not great-power – competition.

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