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PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2024

PS editors

At the end of a year of domestic and international upheaval, Project Syndicate commentators share their favorite books from the past 12 months. Covering a wide array of genres and disciplines, this year’s picks provide fresh perspectives on the defining challenges of our time and how to confront them.

 ask Project Syndicate contributors to select the books that resonated with them the most over the past year.
  1. op_anheier15_HANNIBAL HANSCHKEPOOLAFP via Getty Images_merkel Hannibal Hanschke/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
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    Angela Merkel’s World of Yesterday

    Helmut K. Anheier highlights how and why the former German chancellor’s legacy has soured in the three years since she left power.
  2. op_moyo5_Wong Yu LiangGetty Images_downarrow Wong Yu Liang/Getty Images
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    The Eight Headwinds Threatening Global Growth in 2025

    Dambisa Moyo highlights the major trends which, if left unchecked, could usher in a period of prolonged stagnation.
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    The World Needs a Pro-Human AI Agenda

    Daron Acemoglu fears that the tech industry’s current priorities will result in the worst of all possible worlds.
  4. op_disparte1_SadikDemirozGetty Images_digitaldollar FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images
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    Trump’s Inflationary Triple Threat

    Maurice Obstfeld warns that the incoming administration’s agenda would weaken the Fed and destabilize the financial system.
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  5. op_yhuang2_BRENDAN SMIALOWSKIAFP via Getty Images_trumpmaga Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
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    To Win Back Voters, Democrats Should Let Trump Be Trump

    Yasheng Huang urges the party to adopt a long-term strategy aimed at discrediting the MAGA ideology once and for all.
  6. op_whatley22_Chip SomodevillaGetty Images_trump Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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    PS Roundtable: The Return of Trump

    PS Commentators consider what the outcome of the 2024 US presidential election will mean for America and the world.
  7. op_badre2_Joan CrosNurPhoto via Getty Images_francestartuptech Joan Cros/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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    Europe’s Existential AI Challenge

    Bertrand Badré & Charles Ferguson explain what is wrong with the EU technology startup system, and what to do about it.
  8. op_batista1_BRENDAN SMIALOWSKIAFP via Getty Images_georgievaIMF Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
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    Will the IMF Survive to 100?

    Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr. & Robert H. Wade propose incremental changes to keep developing and emerging economies on board and engaged.
  9. op_brown2_TIERNEY CROSSAFP via Getty Images_IMFworldbank Tierney Cross/AFP via Getty Images
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    Toward a Fifth World Order

    Gordon Brown & Mohamed A. El-Erian explain why multilateral institutions urgently need to be reformed, and why the G20 is the right forum for it.
  10. op_livingston5_Spencer PlattGetty Images_wallstreet Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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    The Brutes’ New Suits

    James Livingston asks why so many observers now believe that banks are running a con game.
  11. op_reedlangen7_Jemal CountessGetty Images for Court Accountability_supreme court Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Court Accountability
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    America’s Broken Constitution

    Nicholas Reed Langen sees the country’s politicized Supreme Court as the biggest obstacle to addressing many other problems.
  12. op_sonin1_ILYA PITALEVSPUTNIKAFP via Getty Images_russiamilitaryproduction Ilya Pitalev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images
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    Making Sense of Russia’s War Economy

    Konstantin Sonin explains the apparent resilience of growth and employment in the face of increasingly tight sanctions.

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