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Nancy Qian

Nancy Qian

Writing for PS since 2021
27 commentaries
1 videos & podcasts

Nancy Qian, Professor of Economics at Northwestern University, is a co-director of Northwestern University’s Global Poverty Research Lab and Founding Director of China Econ Lab.

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  1. Is Chinese Youth Unemployment As Bad As It Looks?
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    Is Chinese Youth Unemployment As Bad As It Looks?

    Sep 25, 2023 Nancy Qian argues that the rise in joblessness among young people does not spell economic apocalypse for China.

  2. Youth Unemployment and China’s Economic Future
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    Youth Unemployment and China’s Economic Future

    Jul 18, 2023 Nancy Qian sees the contraction of high-paying, high-skilled jobs for recent graduates as an ominous sign.

  3. China’s Youth Unemployment Problem
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    China’s Youth Unemployment Problem

    May 25, 2023 Nancy Qian warns that diminishing opportunities for new graduates will have profound long-run macroeconomic implications.

  4. Banning China from Owning US Farmland Will Achieve Nothing
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    Banning China from Owning US Farmland Will Achieve Nothing

    Apr 14, 2023 Nancy Qian explains why preventing other countries from buying agricultural land will not help American food producers.

  5. China’s Brutal COVID Winter
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    China’s Brutal COVID Winter

    Jan 5, 2023 Nancy Qian identifies the social and economic factors that are hampering basic infection-control efforts.

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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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