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Victoria Gierok is a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow in Economic History at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford.

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  1. The Euro and Its Imperial Ancestors
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    The Euro and Its Imperial Ancestors

    Jul 19, 2024 Victoria Gierok draws lessons from earlier experiments with common currencies across disparate polities and economies.

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    The Brutes’ New Suits

    James Livingston

    In capitalist economies, banks are supposed to pool society's savings and channel them to sectors where, opportunity costs being equal, profits are predictably higher than elsewhere. But is that really what today's bankers are doing?

     asks why so many observers now believe that institutions central to modern economies are running a con game.
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    How to Judge the New British Government’s First Budget

    Mohamed A. El-Erian

    If UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves tried to meet all the political demands that have been placed on her, her budget would likely result in disappointing growth and financial instability. Instead, the new government's first budget should be judged according to four longer-term criteria.

     lists four criteria for assessing the chancellor's attempt to meet a long list of unrealistic demands.
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    Outsourcing Our Future to For-Profit AI

    Katharina Pistor worries that we have already ceded control to self-interested private corporations and their shareholders.
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    Investments in Nature Will Decide Our Future

    Ambroise Fayolle points out that biodiversity loss and ecosystem damage jeopardize all other global development goals.
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    The Roots of Europe’s Immigration Problem

    Robert Skidelsky calls attention to the conditions that lead African migrants to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean.
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    The BRICS Still Don’t Matter

    Jim O'Neill thinks the grouping continues to show that it serves no purpose beyond generating symbolic political gestures.
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    Why Another Trump Term Would Be Worse Than the First

    Tom Ginsburg & Aziz Huq see a pattern of authoritarian movements becoming more effective when given a second shot at power.
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    The Case for Press Freedom Just Got Stronger

    Katrin Kivi highlights the findings of two new reports that illustrate the many benefits of protecting independent media.
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    China’s Pension Crisis Is Here

    Yi Fuxian argues that the country’s efforts to mitigate the effects of rapid demographic aging are too little, too late.

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