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  1. Axel A. Weber

    Axel A. Weber

    Writing for PS since 2015
    6 Commentaries

    Axel A. Weber, Co-Chair of the Bretton Woods Committee Multilateral Reform Working Group, is a former chairman at UBS Group and a former president of the Deutsche Bundesbank.

  2. Winnie Byanyima

    Winnie Byanyima

    Writing for PS since 2016
    7 Commentaries

    Winnie Byanyima is Executive Director of UNAIDS and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

  3. Eric Hazan

    Eric Hazan

    Writing for PS since 2018
    3 Commentaries

    Eric Hazan is a managing partner at McKinsey & Company and a member of the McKinsey Global Institute Council.

  4. Alessio Terzi

    Alessio Terzi

    Writing for PS since 2019
    7 Commentaries

    Alessio Terzi, a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Sciences Po, is an economist at the European Commission and the author of Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe (Harvard University Press, 2022).

  5. Eric Posner

    Eric Posner

    Writing for PS since 2019
    32 Commentaries

    Eric Posner, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is the author of How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford University Press, 2021).

  6. Juan Lucas Restrepo

    Juan Lucas Restrepo

    Writing for PS since 2020
    2 Commentaries

    Juan Lucas Restrepo is Director General of the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture.

  7. Ilona Sologoub

    Ilona Sologoub

    Writing for PS since 2022
    9 Commentaries

    Ilona Sologoub is Editor of VoxUkraine.

  8. Salome Samadashvili

    Salome Samadashvili

    Writing for PS since 2022
    3 Commentaries

    Salome Samadashvili, a former head of Georgia’s Mission to the European Union, is a member of Georgia’s parliament and Political Secretary of the Lelo for Georgia party.

  9. Silke Bollmohr

    Silke Bollmohr

    Writing for PS since 2022
    2 Commentaries

    Silke Bollmohr, Founder of EcoTrac Consulting, is Senior Policy Adviser for Global Food Policy and Agriculture at INKOTA netzwerk.

  10. Reed Galen

    Reed Galen

    Writing for PS since 2023
    3 Commentaries

    Reed Galen is a co-founder of The Lincoln Project, a pro-democracy organization founded by former Republican strategists with the goal of defeating Donald Trump, host of The Lincoln Project Podcast, and the author of The Home Front on Substack.

  11. Tom Achoki

    Tom Achoki

    Writing for PS since 2024
    2 Commentaries

    Tom Achoki, a former Sloan fellow at MIT, is an adjunct faculty member at Baylor University and Co-Founder of the Africa Institute for Health Policy in Nairobi, Kenya. 

  12. Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Lilja Dögg Alfreðsdóttir is Minister of Culture and Business Affairs of Iceland.

  13. Judith Kirton-Darling

    Judith Kirton-Darling

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Judith Kirton-Darling is General Secretary of the European trade union IndustriAll.

  14. Rachel Ruto

    Rachel Ruto

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Rachel Ruto is First Lady of Kenya.

  15. Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak

    Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP28, is President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

  16. Avni Patel Thompson

    Avni Patel Thompson

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Avni Patel Thompson is Founder and CEO, most recently, of Milo, an AI-powered partner that helps parents tackle the invisible load of managing a family.

  17. Barron Joseph Orr

    Barron Joseph Orr

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Barron Joseph Orr is Chief Scientist at the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.

  18. Oliver Roethig

    Oliver Roethig

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Oliver Roethig is Regional Secretary of UNI Europa.

  19. Alicia García-Herrero

    Alicia García-Herrero

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Alicia García-Herrero, a senior fellow at Bruegel, is Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at the French investment bank Natixis and an independent board member of AGEAS insurance group.

  20. Joshua Gans

    Joshua Gans

    Writing for PS since 2024
    1 Commentary

    Joshua Gans is Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

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    Rough Justice for Trump

    Eric Posner

    Following Donald Trump’s conviction in a Manhattan courtroom, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board worries that the successful prosecution of a former president will usher in “a new and destabilizing era of American politics.” But that era already began in 2016, and the blame for it lies squarely with Trump himself.

    thinks the Manhattan jury’s guilty verdict is the best that can be hoped for, under the circumstances.
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    Still Haunted by the Washington Consensus

    Antara Haldar thinks the old one-size-fits-all model is still causing problems, despite having been discredited.
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    The Right Way to Regulate AI

    Joshua Gans argues that the key is to identify and reverse the technology’s unwelcome consequences soon after they appear.
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    Restoring Africa’s Culture and Philosophy Is the Key to Development

    Hippolyte Fofack shows how the lack of a collective consciousness has reduced most governments to managing crisis after crisis.
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    A Plea for Political Economy

    Kaushik Basu thinks understanding recent technological advances requires economists to revive an old tradition.
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    The Danger of Premature ECB Rate Cuts

    Axel A. Weber warns that inviting renewed persistent inflation would be much worse than keeping monetary policy too tight.
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    Britain’s Make-or-Break Election

    Chris Patten laments the absence of responsible leaders capable of addressing the country’s many daunting challenges.
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    China’s Economy Cannot Export Its Problems Away

    Alicia García-Herrero & Alessio Terzi explain why the current growth strategy will inevitably fail to address the roots of the economy’s problems.
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    Trade Unions Can Defeat Europe’s Far Right

    Oliver Roethig explains why stronger trade unions hold the key to countering the rise of extremist parties.

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