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Laura Tyson

Laura Tyson, former chair of the US president's Council of Economic Advisers, is professor of the graduate school at the Haas School of Business and chair of the Blum Center board of trustees at the University of California, Berkeley.

Pop-art illustration of Elon Musk's face on an orange and red background.

Why DOGE and Musk will fail

Laura Tyson

Elon Musk’s bid to “reinvent” government through Trump’s advisory DOGE commission will likely be a meme-worthy spectacle.

From California capitalism to Bidenomics

Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca

The Biden administration’s ambitious spending and investment programmes have already proven highly successful in the country’s most dynamic state.