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Yang Yao

Yang Yao

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Yang Yao is Liberal Arts Chair Professor at the China Center for Economic Research and the National School of Development at Peking University.

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  1. How to Tackle China’s Overcapacity Problem
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    How to Tackle China’s Overcapacity Problem

    Apr 10, 2024 Yang Yao argues that insufficient demand and the lack of a vibrant capital market mean savings must be invested abroad.

  2. Is the Chinese Miracle Over?
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    Is the Chinese Miracle Over?

    Jan 4, 2024 Yang Yao argues that the economy’s weak recent performance is a temporary consequence of necessary policy interventions.

  3. Will the Ukraine War Ease US-China Tensions?
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    Will the Ukraine War Ease US-China Tensions?

    Apr 1, 2022 Yang Yao views the conflict as a potential turning point for the bilateral relationship, at least in the economic arena.

  4. The Open Secret of Development Economics
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    The Open Secret of Development Economics

    Oct 22, 2019 Yang Yao points out that the playbook for climbing the income ladder has been known since the 1950s.

  5. China’s Modernization Ambitions
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    China’s Modernization Ambitions

    Feb 13, 2018 Yang Yao considers the key challenges confronting Xi Jinping's promise to build a “fully modern” economy by 2035.

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    Musk Has Made Tesla a Meme Stock

    J. Bradford DeLong worries that the first mover in electric vehicles is increasingly running on bucket-shop hype.
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    The US Treasury’s Bond Blunder Will Cost Gen Z Dearly

    Todd G. Buchholz & James Carter thinks the US should have locked in favorable borrowing rates when it had the chance.
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    What’s Driving the Global Gold Rush?

    Harold James considers the political factors pushing the price of the “barbarous relic” to all-time highs.
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    Global Elections in the Shadow of Neoliberalism

    Joseph E. Stiglitz

    While scandals, culture wars, and threats to democracy dominate the headlines, the biggest issues in this super election year ultimately concern economic policies. After all, the rise of anti-democratic populist authoritarianism is itself the legacy of a misbegotten economic ideology.

    considers what 40 years of anti-government, low-tax, deregulatory advocacy have wrought around the world.
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    Averting Climate Catastrophe Requires Economic Growth

    Alessio Terzi & Gernot Wagner show why shrinking the global economy, as envisaged by advocates of degrowth, is a bad way to cut emissions.
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    Banned By Germany

    Yanis Varoufakis

    Germany recently prohibited a Palestinian Congress from taking place in Berlin, arrested its Jewish supporters, and barred one of its organizers, Greece’s former finance minister, from entering the country. But the turn to repression is powerful evidence that the country’s pro-Israel political consensus is breaking down.

    sees in his case an effort to enforce with repression a pro-Israel political consensus that is breaking down.
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    China Should Emulate Taiwan’s Tech Policies

    Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng urge the Chinese government to follow the island's lead by embracing the financialization of innovation.
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    The Macron Moment

    Mark Leonard thinks the French president has the capability to provide the strategic leadership that Europe needs.
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    Is Climate Action China’s Trump Card?

    Li Shuo & Lauri Myllyvirta explain why the country’s emissions-reduction plan for 2035 could accelerate the fight against global warming.

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