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Anders Åslund is the author of Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy (Yale University Press, 2019).

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  1. Putin’s War Is Fueling Russian Stagflation
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    Putin’s War Is Fueling Russian Stagflation

    Jan 14, 2025 Anders Åslund thinks a weakening economy will soon become a serious constraint on Vladimir Putin’s war machine.

  2. The Battle Over Russia’s Central Bank Heats Up
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    The Battle Over Russia’s Central Bank Heats Up

    Nov 11, 2024 Anders Åslund highlights rising political tension over the country’s rapidly deteriorating economic conditions.

  3. Anders Åslund on the Trump threat, Ukrainian security, Putin's survival, and more
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    Anders Åslund on the Trump threat, Ukrainian security, Putin's survival, and more

    Nov 5, 2024 Anders Åslund considers what the US presidential election will mean for Ukraine, says that only a humiliating loss in the war could threaten Vladimir Putin’s position, urges the EU to take additional steps to ensure a rapid and successful Ukrainian accession, and more.

  4. The Russian War Economy’s Days Are Numbered
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    The Russian War Economy’s Days Are Numbered

    Oct 1, 2024 Anders Åslund explains why – and when – the Kremlin will run out of the resources it needs to continue its war.

  5. Kamala Harris Must Correct US Ukraine Policy
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    Kamala Harris Must Correct US Ukraine Policy

    Aug 13, 2024 Anders Åslund outlines a more robust strategy for the presumptive Democratic nominee to adopt.

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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    America's president subscribes to a brand of isolationism that has waxed and waned throughout US history, but has its roots in the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine. This is bad news for nearly everyone, because it implies acceptance of a world order based on spheres of influence, as envisioned by China and Russia.

     hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill

    Financial markets and official economic indicators over the past few weeks give policymakers around the world plenty to contemplate. Was the recent spike in bond yields a sufficient warning to Donald Trump and his team, or will they still follow through with inflationary stimulus, tariff, and immigration policies?

     wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.
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    Turning the Financial Tide for Small Island States

    Maya Delaney & Aminath Shauna tout the potential of green and blue bonds to protect critical ecosystems and build economic resilience.
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    School Meals Provide Food for Thought – and Fuel for Development

    Gordon Brown & Kevin Watkins tout universal nutrition programs in lower-income countries to mitigate a lost decade for poor children.
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    A House Gutted by Fire

    Terry Lynn Karl blames the inferno now consuming Los Angeles County squarely on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.

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