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Simon Johnson

Simon Johnson, a 2024 Nobel laureate in economics and a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Faculty Director of MIT’s Shaping the Future of Work initiative, and Co-Chair of the CFA Institute Systemic Risk Council.

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What to expect from Trump 2.0?

Simon Johnson

Trump’s return promises bold rhetoric but faces stark economic and global challenges.

“Alternative Facts” And US Economic Policy

Simon Johnson

US President Donald Trump has an obvious problem with data that he doesn’t like, as he showed on his first full day in office, by

The Future Of The Captured State

Simon Johnson

Concerns about state capture are nothing new. Special interests hold undue sway over official decision-makers in many countries, and regulators are always prone to see