This year, we mark the 70th anniversary of the IMF and World Bank and the 50th anniversary of F&D. The world has seen a staggering amount of change in the past seven decades. So, with these two anniversaries in mind we focused our attention on the transformation of the global economyβlooking back and looking ahead. What will the global economy look like in another 70 years? Five Nobel laureatesβGeorge Akerlof, Paul Krugman, Robert Solow, Michael Spence, and Joseph Stiglitzβshare their thoughts on which single βfrontierβ issue promises to shape the economic landscape in the years ahead. In βA World of Change,β Ayhan Kose and Ezgi Ozturk chart the economic transformations of the past 70 years. Martin Wolf looks at the perils and promise of globalization in βShaping Globalization.β IMF Chief Christine Lagarde charts a course for the IMF in the next decade in Straight Talk IMF Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard distills the lessons of the 2008 global financial crisis in βWhere Danger Lurks.β This issue also features cartoonist Nick Galifianakis and Joe Procopio telling the story of the IMFβs origins in a seven-page comic. The People in Economics series profiles a giant in economicsβNobel winner and Stanford professor Ken Arrow, who built on an early passion for math and work in meteorology during World War II to launch a storied career in economics. Articles on the future of energy in the global economy by Jeffrey Ball and on measuring inequalityβthe most hotly debated economic issue of recent daysβby Jonathan Ostry and Andrew Berg round out the package.
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