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By Kenneth Rogoff   CAMBRIDGE – Is it time for the United States to consider switching from income tax to a progressive

By Roger E.A. Farmer   LOS ANGELES – Former US Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence H. Summers and Anna Stansbury recently cast

By Lawrence H. Summers and Anna Stansbury     CAMBRIDGE – The world’s central bankers and the scholars who follow them are

By Diane Coyle   CAMBRIDGE – Do we know how economies develop? Obviously not, it seems, or otherwise every country would be doing

By Joseph Stiglitz     NEW YORK – In the new world wrought by US President Donald Trump, where one shock follows another,

By Daniel Gros   BRUSSELS – FOR A WHILE at least, trade tensions between the United States and China seemed to have settled into

By Micheal Spence     MILAN – The eighteenth-century British economist Adam Smith has long been revered as the founder of

By Paul Mulindwa   JOHANNESBURG – Mediating a deadlocked political dispute is difficult work in the best of times. Mediating the

By Michael Spence   MILAN – The eighteenth-century British economist Adam Smith has long been revered as the founder of modern