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Stories by Simon Johnson

Will democracies stand up to Big Brother?

Published:Wednesday | June 14, 2023 | 8:03 AMSimon Johnson, Daron Acemoglu, and Sylvia Barmack for Project Syndicate

- Simon Johnson, Daron Acemoglu, and Sylvia Barmack CAMBRIDGE: Fiction writers have long imagined scenarios in which every human action is monitored by some malign centralised authority. But now, despite their warnings, we find ourselves careening...

Vaccination is not enough

Published:Tuesday | February 2, 2021 | 4:35 PMSimon Johnson, Anette (Peko) Hosoi, and Melea Atkins for Project Syndicate

WASHINGTON, DC – In the next stage of the fight against COVID-19, can we rely on vaccines alone? Although vaccination in the United States and some other countries is beginning to pick up pace, in most countries it hasn’t even begun....

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