JW Mason is Associate Professor of Economics at John Jay College, City University of New York and a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. You can read his blog here , and his tweets here.

June 17, 2023

Interviews

Varieties of Derisking

Industrial policy, macrofinance, and the green transition

, Melanie Brusseler, Daniela Gabor, Chirag Lala, JW Mason

In recent years, the debate over climate policy has moved away from the earlier consensus in favor of carbon pricing and towards an investment-focused approach, illustrated by the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), along with other similar measures…

June 7, 2023

Analysis

Risk Politics

ESG and the politicization of finance

, Gareth Bryant

In 2022, Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) accounted for 65 percent of all new inflows in exchange traded funds in Europe. Investments in the US are also projected to grow—PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) observes that more than eight out of ten…

October 12, 2022

Interviews

Who Pays for Inflation?

A conversation on monetary policy, labor, and the definition of inflation

, JW Mason

The inflation of the past year has reshaped the political economic landscape in the United States and around the globe. While the IMF and World Bank echo UN calls about the recession risk of globally-synchronized rate hikes, the debate over…