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Zhang Jun

Writing for PS since 2005
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Zhang Jun, Dean of the School of Economics at Fudan University, is Director of the China Center for Economic Studies, a Shanghai-based think tank.

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  1. Why China Provides Evidence for Optimists and Pessimists Alike
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    Why China Provides Evidence for Optimists and Pessimists Alike

    May 8, 2024 Zhang Jun explains why rigorous, evidence-based assessments of the economy's performance can diverge sharply.

  2. Understanding China’s Political Economy
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    Understanding China’s Political Economy

    Mar 11, 2024 Zhang Jun & Tomas Casas-Klett consider whether the factors that have led to today's prosperity also contain the seeds of decline.

  3. Has China’s Economy Peaked?
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    Has China’s Economy Peaked?

    Jan 3, 2024 Zhang Jun notes that today’s key challenges are not new, and that the authorities have long been working to address them.

  4. How China Creates Its Own Market
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    How China Creates Its Own Market

    Oct 30, 2023 Zhang Jun explains why China must abandon its export-driven growth model once and for all.

  5. Why Hasn’t China Rushed to Bail Out Its Economy?
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    Why Hasn’t China Rushed to Bail Out Its Economy?

    Aug 28, 2023 Zhang Jun explains why the country has abandoned its aggressive macroeconomic strategy in favor of de-risking.

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    Rough Justice for Trump

    Eric Posner

    Following Donald Trump’s conviction in a Manhattan courtroom, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board worries that the successful prosecution of a former president will usher in “a new and destabilizing era of American politics.” But that era already began in 2016, and the blame for it lies squarely with Trump himself.

     thinks the Manhattan jury’s guilty verdict is the best that can be hoped for, under the circumstances.
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    Still Haunted by the Washington Consensus

    Antara Haldar thinks the old one-size-fits-all model is still causing problems, despite having been discredited.
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    The Right Way to Regulate AI

    Joshua Gans argues that the key is to identify and reverse the technology’s unwelcome consequences soon after they appear.
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    Restoring Africa’s Culture and Philosophy Is the Key to Development

    Hippolyte Fofack shows how the lack of a collective consciousness has reduced most governments to managing crisis after crisis.
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    A Plea for Political Economy

    Kaushik Basu thinks understanding recent technological advances requires economists to revive an old tradition.
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    The Danger of Premature ECB Rate Cuts

    Axel A. Weber warns that inviting renewed persistent inflation would be much worse than keeping monetary policy too tight.
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    Britain’s Make-or-Break Election

    Chris Patten laments the absence of responsible leaders capable of addressing the country’s many daunting challenges.
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    China’s Economy Cannot Export Its Problems Away

    Alicia García-Herrero & Alessio Terzi explain why the current growth strategy will inevitably fail to address the roots of the economy’s problems.
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    Trade Unions Can Defeat Europe’s Far Right

    Oliver Roethig explains why stronger trade unions hold the key to countering the rise of extremist parties.

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