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  1. PS Commentators’ Predictions for 2024
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    PS Commentators’ Predictions for 2024

    Dec 29, 2023 PS editors asked commentators to suggest national and global trends to look out for in the coming year.

  2. PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2023
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    PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2023

    Dec 15, 2023 PS editors ask Project Syndicate contributors to select the book that resonated with them the most over the past year.

  3. Holiday 2023 Reading List
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    Holiday 2023 Reading List

    Nov 21, 2023 PS editors highlight recent works by PS contributors that belong on your holiday shopping list.

  4. PS Commentators’ Predictions for 2023
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    PS Commentators’ Predictions for 2023

    Dec 30, 2022 PS editors asked commentators to identify national and global trends to look out for in the coming year.

  5. PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2022
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    PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2022

    Dec 16, 2022 PS editors ask Project Syndicate contributors to select the book that resonated with them the most over the past year.

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    The Rise of the Finternet

    Agustín Carstens & Nandan Nilekani foresee a world in which cheap, secure, and near-instantaneous financial transactions are available to all.
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    Don’t Fret About Green Subsidies

    Dani Rodrik sees no good argument against industrial policies that accelerate growth in decarbonization industries.
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    Europe’s Geoeconomic Competitiveness Challenge

    Daniel Gros highlights the security risks raised by the prolonged decline of the EU’s relative economic power.
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    How Exceptional Is China’s Crony-Capitalist Boom?

    Yuen Yuen Ang

    While both the American and Chinese Gilded Ages raised material standards of living for hundreds of millions of people, their endemic corruption produced radically unequal and unsustainable growth. Ultimately, both periods offer cautionary tales about unbridled crony capitalism, not models for blind emulation.

     explains how corruption both drove the country's GDP growth and sowed the seeds for its current economic problems.
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    Will India’s Election Destroy Its Democracy?

    Since taking power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have stoked Hindu nationalism, hollowed out India’s democracy, and overseen an economy that is probably performing far worse than official figures suggest. And yet Modi and the BJP are genuinely popular, making them likely – though not certain – to emerge victorious when the ongoing parliamentary election concludes in June.

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    The Unbearable Lightness of Anti-Zionism

    Shlomo Ben-Ami warns that demonizing all Israelis will only make peace less likely – though that may be the point.
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    How to Close the Gender Wage Gap

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir argues that Iceland’s experience lends further support to Nobel laureate economist Claudia Goldin’s research.
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    Getting the Pandemic Treaty Across the Finish Line

    Gordon Brown hopes negotiations will conclude this month, and pushes back on a last-minute wave of misinformation.
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    When Is Criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic?

    Peter Singer rejects comparisons of the recent US campus protests to the actions of Nazi student groups in the 1930s.

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