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Happy new year! I crossed midnight and rang in 2024 being forced to watch The Holiday (my one line review: Cameron Diaz cannot convincingly play a human being, and poor Kate Winslet) and reading Paul Auster’s new book, Baumgartner when the film became too much to watch (one line review: Paul Auster is great at writing people missing people, but not so good at them actually liking and connecting with each other).
CAMBRIDGE Another tumultuous year has confirmed that the global economy is at a turning point. We face four big challenges: the climate transition, the good-jobs problem, an economic-development crisis, and the search for a newer, healthier form of globalization. To address each, we must leave behind established modes of thinking and seek creative workable solutions, while
"Many hoped that hyper-globalisation would lead to China becoming more democratic and, in turn, the US and other major powers would become more interested in the gains from trade rather than in zero-sum geopolitical competition. Neither of these expectations has materialised."