Ruth Ben-Ghiat for PS Longer Reads: The New-Old Authoritarianism

What Comes After Neoliberalism? Joseph E. Stiglitz, Mariana Mazzucato, Dani Rodrik, Anne O. Krueger, and more respond in a new PS Big Question. [View this message in a web browser]( JUNE 7, 2024 The PS On Point newsletter has a new name, but it still features the same content you have come to expect in your inbox every Friday, including our newest PS Longer Reads and other subscriber-exclusive offerings. This week in PS Longer Reads, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University, explains how Donald Trump and other "strongmen" leaders are dismantling democracy. [Read now](. And in PS Big Question, we asked Mehrsa Baradaran, Anne O. Krueger, Mariana Mazzucato, Dani Rodrik, Joseph E. Stiglitz, and Michael R. Strain whether the neoliberal era is ending – and if so, what will follow it. [Read now](. [PS Longer Reads: The New-Old Authoritarianism]( [The New-Old Authoritarianism]( By Ruth Ben-Ghiat With US think tanks having already drawn up plans for instituting an authoritarian government under a second Donald Trump administration, the stakes in the year's presidential election are difficult to overstate. Around the world, "strongmen" are turning democratic institutions on themselves and learning from each other. [Read more]( [Festival Internationale Dell Economia]( [PS Big Question: What Comes After Neoliberalism?]( [What Comes After Neoliberalism?]( with Joseph E. Stiglitz, Mariana Mazzucato, Dani Rodrik, and more Governments that had spent nearly a half-century preaching the virtues of free trade, deregulation, and hyperglobalization are now imposing import tariffs and export restrictions, adopting industrial policies, and lavishing subsidies on domestic firms in favored sectors, like green tech. With many observers heralding the death of neoliberalism, we asked PS commentators what comes next. [Read more]( [PS. Save 30% on a new Digital subscription with our special introductory offer.]( [PS Longer Reads: China’s Economy Cannot Export Its Problems Away]( [China’s Economy Cannot Export Its Problems Away]( By Alicia García-Herrero and Alessio Terzi China continues to treat only the symptoms, rather than the underlying cause, of its economic malaise. It ought to be doing whatever it can to increase domestic consumption and reduce excessive savings; instead it is relying on export markets in a world that is quickly abandoning free trade. [Read more]( [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](.