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Nathan Sperber

Nathan Sperber writes on political economy. He is based in Paris.
Articles by Nathan Sperber

Macro-Control: Making Sense of a Central Concept in Chinese Economic Policy

From the early 1990s to the present day, Chinese policy speeches and documents regarding the economy have been rife with the expression hongguan tiaokong. Translating this phrase into English is not entirely straightforward. Hong means large, wide, vast, and guan means to watch, to view, as well as appearance. Their combination…

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Muddling Through in Macronia: How Populism and the Establishment Intertwine

The 2010s were a dangerous decade in Western politics. In the span of a single year, between June 2016 and June 2017, the Brexit referendum began Britain’s departure from the EU, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, and France’s party system collapsed. But whereas Brexit and Trump were seen as breakthroughs of nationalist populism, what…

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