Simon Johnson

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Simon Johnson, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a co-chair of the COVID-19 Policy Alliance, and a co-chair of the CFA Institute Systemic Risk Council. He is the co-author (with Daron Acemoglu) of Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (PublicAffairs, 2023).

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Opinion

Opinion: Putin’s silk road around sanctions

by Robin Brooks, Simon Johnson February 29, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – For about 1,500 years, high-value goods were moved from China (and perhaps other parts of Asia) to Europe and the Middle East via the Silk Road. The precise route varied over time, but it always ran through and involved local traders in parts of what we

Opinion

Opinion: Ratcheting up the pressure on Russia's oil revenues

by Simon Johnson, Catherine Wolfram October 13, 2023

By declining to include funding for Ukraine as part of the recent deal to avert a government shutdown, the U.S. Congress sent a signal of encouragement to Russian President Vladimir Putin. That makes tightening the price cap on Russian oil exports all the more important. WASHINGTON, DC/CAMBRIDGE – Wars

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Articles

Opinion: Putin’s silk road around sanctions

Opinion: Ratcheting up the pressure on Russia's oil revenues

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