Antara Haldar
advocates a radical rethink of development, explains what went right at the recent AI Safety Summit, highlights the economics discipline’s shortcomings, and more.
The prevailing narrative that frames Israel as a colonial power suppressing Palestinians’ struggle for statehood grossly oversimplifies a complicated conflict and inadvertently vindicates the region’s most oppressive regimes. Achieving a durable, lasting peace requires moving beyond such facile analogies.
rejects the facile moralism of those who view the ongoing war through the narrow lens of decolonization.
The far-right populist Geert Wilders’ election victory in the Netherlands reflects the same sentiment that powered Brexit and Donald Trump’s candidacy in 2016. But such outcomes could not happen without the cynicism displayed over the past few decades by traditional conservative parties.
shows what Geert Wilders has in common with other ultra-nationalist politicians, past and present.
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发自普林斯顿——20世纪30年代的可怕经历应该提醒我们,贸易和货币战争就跟马和马车一样相伴相生。既然美国特朗普政府正在全面实施其保护主义的“美国优先”议程,那么距离一场货币冲突的爆发就只是时间问题而已了。
世界上已经有相当一段时间内没有爆发全面货币战争了,但全球在2008年金融危机之后曾经非常接近这一状况,而时任巴西财政部长吉多·曼特加(Guido Mantega)曾用这个词来形容美国极低的利率。继美国之后,日本和欧洲似乎采取了类似的出口促进战略,汇率贬值成为发达经济体经济复苏的一个鲜为人知的核心特征。
同样,在2012年之后,只有在欧元兑美元开始贬值之后欧元危机才逐渐开始变得易于应对。正如英国许多经济学家已经指出的那样,与欧元区国家相比,灵活的汇率成为了英国应对该时期冲击的独特有效工具。
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