Professor of Global Health Law, Lawrence Gostin: Ebola and Beyond
– The United States and Europe have grossly overreacted to a few isolated cases of the Ebola virus within their borders. These panicked responses are not just futile. By violating basic scientific principles, More...
Lucy P. Marcus: Investing in Happy Endings
– Public and private investment in the real economy has been under attack since the 2008 financial crisis. In difficult economic times, it may seem logical to cut investments that yield results only More...
Berkeley Economics and Political Science Prof. Barry Eichengreen and Domenico Lombardi: Ukraine’s Debt Dilemma
– Insecurity is haunting Ukraine – and not just geopolitical insecurity, but economic insecurity as well. Output is in freefall. The country’s external deficit is exploding, and borrowing costs More...
Professor of Economics at Harvard University Kenneth Rogoff: Celebrity Central Bankers
– /By Kenneth Rogoff / Why do the comments of major economies’ central bankers command outsize attention nowadays? It is not as if they change interest rates all of the time. Nor have they developed More...
Germany’s Federal Minister of Finance Wolfgang Schäuble: Why Taxation Must Go Global
– BERLIN – We are witnessing profound changes in the way that the world economy works. As a result of the growing pace and intensity of globalization and digitization, more and more economic processes More...
Former Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia Stephen Roach: Last Chance for Japan?
– NEW HAVEN – Japan is the petri dish for the struggle against the secular stagnation that is now gripping most major developed economies. And, notwithstanding all of the fanfare surrounding “Abenomics, More...
Sin-ming Shaw, former fellow at Oxford University: China’s Hong Kong Follies
– HONG KONG – The massive public demonstrations by students and young members of the middle-class that have roiled Hong Kong in recent weeks are ostensibly demands for democracy. But they actually reflect More...
Hans-Werner Sinn, Prof. Of Economics and Public Finance: Europe’s Brush with Debt
– MUNICH – French Prime Minister Manuel Valls and his Italian counterpart, Matteo Renzi, have declared – or at least insinuated – that they will not comply with the fiscal compact to which More...
Nobel Laureate in Economics Prof. Joseph Stiglitz: Debeaking the Vultures
– / By Joseph E. Stiglitz and Martin Guzman / Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate in economics, is University Professor at Columbia University. His most recent book, co-authored with Bruce Greenwald, More...
Lucy P. Marcus: The People’s Corporations
– Two big power shifts are occurring around the world today. First, corporate power is growing relative to that of governments. Second, ordinary people are also gaining greater influence. What does More...