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The French Playbook 3: Clown Crusaders?
We see no better way to kick off our first Playbook of 2020 than with a contemporary Tale of Two Cities, or a civil service equivalent of a Marvel-DC crossover, depending on which generation you hail from; drama, suspense, emotion […]
Paranoid Androids: Will They Leave Us High and Dry?
It is not only Andrew Yang who expects automation to massively disrupt the labor market, economists are wary, too. Automation is regarded as a ticking time bomb; robots running AI algorithms taking over most of the jobs. Economists studying automation […]
Bitter Waters Divide South Korea and Japan
The Other Trade War Overshadowed by the US-China trade war, there’s another serious trade altercation with equally grave consequences for the global economy unfolding at this moment. In July 2019, Japan announced it would limit exports of three chemicals, fluorinated […]
A History of Campaign Week Promises: Survey
Over the years, us SciencesPo students have been promised many things: most recently, an app that would allow us to consult our schedules on our phones; before that, a career services department dedicated to helping guide us in our professional […]
Data Shows French Examination Procedure Much More Selective than International Procedure
Three Worlds of Selectivity Sciences Po reports an overall admissions rate of 18% in 2019 for the undergraduate programme. But the road to Sciences Po is not equal in terms of selectivity. Every year, the Sciences Po Admissions Report provides […]
Central Banks in Need of Reinvention in “New Normal Era”
Christine Lagarde: the renovator of the house Duisenberg built? In the years following major crises in financial and sovereign sectors, a period of uncertainty has seemed to fall upon central bankers across the world, as they re-evaluate the efficacy and […]
Profiting from Crisis
What is the cost of revolution and who profits from it? Whatever your view is on the absolute chaos in Hong Kong, be it the beginning of a just revolution or an unnecessary and damaging rebellion, it is and will […]
No Thanks to a One-Size-Fits-All European Minimum Wage
It would be difficult to explain Danish voters that Brussels decided to transfer power to employers and increase wage inequality in Denmark so that wage inequality across EU countries could decrease. Some progressive American students may have gasped reading the […]
Rebuttal: Warren’s Wealth Tax, a Rudimentary Fallacy in Basic Economics
Samuel Shih refutes the Quarterly’s latest leader on U.S Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren’s proposed wealth tax. Senator Warren’s wealth tax plan, as advocated in the Quarterly’s leader last month, is a hot issue among Democratic presidential candidates. Senator Warren is […]
