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Jason Furman
Jason Furman is a prominent American economist known for his extensive contributions to public policy, academia, and economic analysis. He currently serves as the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard University. He served as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) under President Barack Obama from August 2013 to January 2017. In this role, he acted as a principal economic advisor to the President.
Furman has been deeply involved in the intersection of academic research and public policy. His scholarship and policy work often emphasise the effectiveness of fiscal tools for promoting economic growth and reducing inequality, and he is known for advocating pragmatic, data-driven approaches to complex economic problems.
Jason Furman is a prominent American economist known for his extensive contributions to public policy, academia, and economic analysis. He currently serves as the Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard University. He served as the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) under President Barack Obama from August 2013 to January 2017. In this role, he acted as a principal economic advisor to the President.
Furman has been deeply involved in the intersection of academic research and public policy. His scholarship and policy work often emphasise the effectiveness of fiscal tools for promoting economic growth and reducing inequality, and he is known for advocating pragmatic, data-driven approaches to complex economic problems.
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Darkness, Authority and Dreams
Why Marx was Right
The Left, the Right and the Righteous
The Myths of Meritocracy
Clear Bright Future
What's Wrong With the Left?
A Tribal World
The People's Champion
Has Brexit Broken British Politics?
Socialist Dreams
A World Without Borders
Reason, Rage and Revolution
The Swindle of the New
There's No Such Thing As Free Speech
Everywhere, Somewhere and Nowhere
Strange Affects and Collective Emotions
How To Be Idle
The Darkest Dictator: Orwell vs Huxley
The end of left and right
Politics and Post-Truth
Capitalism and Anarchy
The Right to be Offended
The Arc of Life: Tariq Ali
Lies, Lies, Lies
Elites in the Dock
The Rise and Fall of Democracy
The Net Delusion
After Identity Politics
On the Side of the Angels
The Will of the People
Diversity and Difference
Ideology and the East
My Body, My Choice
The Hubris Syndrome
An Age of Tragedy?
Stories of Life and Law
Being Free and Making Choices
Je Suis Charlie?
Terrorism and the Truth
Vive la Revolution
Revolution in Rojava
Killing the King
A New Sort of Socialism | Leo Panitch
Democracy, Freedom and Choice
An Age of Transparency
A New Socialism
Democracy in Crisis
Britain in Uncharted Territory
The Future of the Left
Democracy and the Digital Revolution
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Defeating the Digital Oligopoly
The Gathering Storm - Part I
Betraying the Global Poor
Catalonia vs Spain: The Philosophy Behind the News
How To Understand a World Run By Bad Boys
The battle for global domination
Hidden global power grab
The mysterious superpower
Huawei and the Great Decoupling
Tipping the geopolitical balance - The China-Iran deal
The last days of America
Trump vs Biden: It doesn't matter
Why they killed Gaddafi
Why Ukraine is Europe's most dangerous border
Cold War II
States vs corporations
The Iran trap
The real reason for leaving Afghanistan
Afghanistan and the forever war myth
9/11, Al Qaeda and the nuclear terror threat
9/11 and the decline of America
We can’t tame big tech
China’s secret weapon
The real trouble with Ukraine
War rarely goes to plan
How we got Putin so wrong
The truth about nuclear deterrence
The US can't break the Russia-China alliance
How the West got Russia and China Wrong
India is creating a new world order