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Martín Guzmán

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Martín Guzmán, a former minister of economy of Argentina, is a professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

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  1. Sri Lanka’s People Need a New Debt Deal
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    Sri Lanka’s People Need a New Debt Deal

    Sep 30, 2024 C.P. Chandrasekhar, et al. urge the country’s new government to eschew austerity and reject the debt-restructuring deal with bondholders.

  2. The IMF Must End Its Destructive Surcharges
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    The IMF Must End Its Destructive Surcharges

    Sep 16, 2024 Joseph E. Stiglitz, et al. decry the counterproductive practice of imposing additional fees on countries in debt distress.

  3. Debt and Disease
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    Debt and Disease

    Jan 5, 2021 Martín Guzmán shares lessons from Argentina's successful sovereign-debt restructuring amid the COVID-19 crisis.

  4. An Interview with Martín Guzmán
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    An Interview with Martín Guzmán

    Dec 22, 2020 Martín Guzmán examines the lessons of Argentina’s recent debt restructuring, considers the applications of his (and Joseph Stiglitz’s) theory of “pseudo-wealth,” and shows what Dostoyevsky understood about economics.

  5. Five Principles for the Pandemic
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    Five Principles for the Pandemic

    Mar 27, 2020 Martín Guzmán explains where policymakers should focus their attention in responding to the COVID-19 crisis.

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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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