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  The Fight Over the Global Economy’s Future

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  The World Is Becoming More Equal

  foreignaffairs.com - Branko Milanovic

  Opponents of economic globalization often point to the ways it has widened inequality within nations in recent decades. In the United States, for …

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  The Pandemic Depression

  foreignaffairs.com - Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart

  The COVID-19 pandemic poses a once-in-a-generation threat to the world’s population. Although this is not the first disease outbreak to spread around …

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  After Capital

  foreignaffairs.com - Arvind Subramanian

  As the coronavirus pandemic ravages the globe and exposes dysfunction in Western capitalist democracies intellectuals are intoning in near unison: …

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  The Age of Magic Money

  foreignaffairs.com - Sebastian Mallaby

  Crises can drive change, but sometimes it takes two crises to cement a transformation. Alone, the Great Depression ushered in the New Deal, roughly …

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  It Is Time to Abandon Dollar Hegemony

  foreignaffairs.com - Simon Tilford and Hans Kundnani

  In the 1960s, French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d’Estaing complained that the dominance of the U.S. dollar gave the United States an “exorbitant …