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Katharina Pistor
By Katharina Pistor - Mar 17,2021
NEW YORK — How can one make wise decisions about a perpetually unknowable future? This question is as old as humankind, but it has become existential in light of climate change.
By Katharina Pistor - Nov 25,2020
WASHINGTON, DC — With Donald Trump and the Republican establishment refusing to accept defeat in the face of a clear election result, democracy in the United States is under unprecedented attack.
By Katharina Pistor - Sep 24,2020
NEW YORK – Although the proper role of government in society is much debated, few would dispute that law enforcement falls within the state’s remit.
By Katharina Pistor - Jul 21,2020
NEW YORK — What do the Calabrian organised crime syndicate ‘Ndrangheta, Hertz, China’s Sichuan Trust and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) have in common?
By Katharina Pistor - Feb 15,2020
NEW YORK — In a recent tweet, Olivier Blanchard, a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, wondered how we can “have so much political and geopolitical uncertainty and so little economic uncertainty”.
By Katharina Pistor - Dec 11,2019
NEW YORK — Economic inequality has moved to the top of the political agenda in many countries, including free-market poster children like the United States and the United Kingdom.
By Katharina Pistor - Oct 14,2019
NEW YORK — Three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the United States is finally embracing public banking.
By Katharina Pistor - Sep 01,2019
NEW YORK — The Business Roundtable, an association of the most powerful chief executive officers in the United States, announced last month that the era of shareholder primacy is over. Predictably, this lofty proclamation has met with both elation and skepticism.
By Katharina Pistor - Apr 24,2016
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen famously suggested that famines do not occur in democracies because accountable governments will do everything they can to avoid mass starvation.The same reasoning should apply to clean drinking water; like food, it is a resource that is indispensable f
By Katharina Pistor - Aug 05,2015
News headlines notwithstanding, the fundamental challenge facing Europe today extends far beyond Greece.The real question is what kind of European Union Greece’s creditors want: a “small” one, comprising only the countries that are prepared to live by their exacting standards, or

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