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Antara Haldar

Antara Haldar

Writing for PS since 2019
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Antara Haldar, Associate Professor of Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Cambridge, is a visiting faculty member at Harvard University and the principal investigator on a European Research Council grant on law and cognition.

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  1. COVID’s Lessons Have All Been Forgotten
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    COVID’s Lessons Have All Been Forgotten

    Dec 30, 2024 Antara Haldar laments the world's return to business as usual without having absorbed anything essential from the pandemic.

  2. Trump’s Victory Over the Rule of Law
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    Trump’s Victory Over the Rule of Law

    Dec 11, 2024 Antara Haldar considers whether a defining component of American democracy has been lost for good.

  3. Why Do Countries Prosper?
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    Why Do Countries Prosper?

    Nov 4, 2024 Antara Haldar considers what this year’s Nobel Prize-winning economic research gets right, and what it overlooks.

  4. The Bloody Path of Alberto Fujimori’s Neoliberalism
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    The Bloody Path of Alberto Fujimori’s Neoliberalism

    Oct 4, 2024 Antara Haldar assesses the former Peruvian president’s legacy of free-market reform and death-squad dictatorship.

  5. What Microfinance Can Teach Economists
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    What Microfinance Can Teach Economists

    Aug 29, 2024 Antara Haldar considers lessons from Bangladesh’s recent history of political tumult and financial experimentation.

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    The Key to Narrowing the Development Gap

    Pascal Lamy, et al. explain how investments in African agri-food systems can advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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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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