William H. Janeway for PS On Point: The Rise of Mesoeconomics

Don't miss a new PS Say More with Adekeye Adebajo, on the Non-Aligned Movement, UN peacekeeping, African institution-building, and more. [View this message in a web browser]( [PS On Point]( MAY 17, 2024 A growing body of literature focusing on the domain between the microeconomic and the macroeconomic has become increasingly relevant in a world beset by supply shocks. Armed with such insights, writes William H. Janeway of the University of Cambridge and Warburg Pincus, those designing industrial policies will have a better chance of achieving their overlapping economic- and national-security goals. [Read more]( [PS. Subscribe to PS starting at just $49.99.]( [PS Longer Reads: The Rise of Mesoeconomics]( [The Rise of Mesoeconomics]( By William H. Janeway The digitalization of economic life and real-world data has opened up new possibilities for the study of the economic networks, regions, and sectors that ultimately determine how economic policies play out in the real world. Such modes of thinking will be crucial for economic policymaking in a new age of geopolitical risk. [Read more]( [PS Say More: Adekeye Adebajo on the Non-Aligned Movement, United Nations peacekeeping, African institution-building, and more]( [Adekeye Adebajo on the Non-Aligned Movement, United Nations peacekeeping, African institution-building, and more]( Adekeye Adebajo argues that Israel’s war in Gaza is accelerating the trend toward global apartheid, highlights the strengths and weaknesses of United Nations peacekeeping missions, criticizes the militarization of US engagement with Africa, and more. Adebajo is a professor and a senior research fellow at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship in South Africa, and the author of [Global Africa: Profiles in Courage, Creativity, and Cruelty](. [Read more]( [PS Longer Reads: How Exceptional Is China's Crony-Capitalist Boom?]( [How Exceptional Is China's Crony-Capitalist Boom?]( By Yuen Yuen Ang A longstanding consensus holds that Western industrialized economies achieved their unprecedented levels of prosperity only by eradicating corruption, and that modern China's rapid GDP growth therefore breaks the mold. But a clear-eyed appraisal of American history shows that China is not so unique after all. [Read more]( [Join a global gathering of journalists and editors at the IPI World Congress in Sarajevo, exploring the role of media in crises.]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. Receipt of this newsletter does not guarantee rights to re-publish any of its content. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.