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Danny Quah

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Danny Quah

@DannyQuah

Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics @LKYSch #NUS. Economic principles for world order and empirics for a shifting global economy

Singapore

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Joined December 2007

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Danny Quah
@DannyQuah
Jul 10, 2021
My PhD supervisor told me give the reader just four numbers to remember; doesn't matter however elaborate and complicated your empirical analysis. Those from whom I learnt public speaking said, Make three points – no one remembers anything beyond that.
Danny Quah
@DannyQuah
Mar 11, 2024
This is not the first time world order is splintering. But economic interconnectedness traditionally raised fragmentation costs and thus held the world together. Now the logic is reversed: economic integration is a prime contributor to fragmentation. dannyquah.github.io/In-progress.ht…
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Danny Quah
@DannyQuah
Jan 26, 2017
Can't quite put my finger on it but something doesn't add up here
Danny Quah
@DannyQuah
Oct 30, 2024
Towards the end of the 20th C, large economic and geopolitical forces grew collinear to jointly facilitate China's rise, resulting in global coalescence. But those same forces now threaten fragmentation of world order as China's rise continues... dannyquah.github.io/In-progress.ht… 1/2
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Danny Quah
@DannyQuah
Dec 21, 2014
How to ruin a world-leading nation: First, reject the educated and talented who come to you thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/Polit…
Danny Quah
@DannyQuah
Oct 5, 2024
Americans 250 years ago knew full well who pays trade tariffs. piie.com/blogs/realtime…
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Danny Quah
@DannyQuah
May 13, 2024
The richest nations on the planet are almost all small states. This paper shows that this, together with how poor economies are cheap, means (1) small states need to lead the global economy on trade; (2) technical progress is no universal good. dannyquah.github.io/In-progress.ht…
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Danny Quah
@DannyQuah
Aug 9, 2016
"What I can't stand is how #PokemonGo has made people change the way they relate to each other."
Danny Quah
@DannyQuah
Jul 25, 2023
Adam Posen's brilliant and powerful article on the illogic of US Zero-Sum Economics: Even with concerns over national security, climate change, and resilience, it will still be that America's Industrial Policy and subsidies do more harm than good. foreignpolicy.com/2023/03/24/eco…
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Danny Quah
@DannyQuah
Mar 12, 2020
In response to COVID-19, one nation locked down and was described as inflicting "great cost to people's livelihoods and personal liberties";another nation locked down and was said to be (valiantly) "risking its economy in an effort to contain Europe's worst coronavirus outbreak"
Danny Quah
@DannyQuah
Sep 19, 2023
I don't have a view on the other things you say, but my School has nothing to do with this Exchange Fellowship.
Bhupen kumar Borah
@BhupenKBorah
Sep 19, 2023
OPEN LETTER TO LEE KUAN YEW SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY Dear Dean @DannyQuah I am astounded by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy's decision to award the Lee Kuan Yew Exchange Fellowship to Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. Lee Kuan Yew, the Father of Singapore, was
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Danny Quah
@DannyQuah
Apr 25, 2020
"We read the labels on the bottles we found in the janitor's closet."
Danny Quah
@DannyQuah
Feb 29, 2020
Not a headline my friends across the world might see in their domestic news straitstimes.com/politics/pay-c…
Danny Quah
@DannyQuah
Dec 14, 2021
Obsidian @obsdmd second brain's graphical view of all my research and writing files tagged #inequality spread across scores of subfolders (that once I'd thought would provide a good organization). Thanks to @obsdmd future-proofed as I write only in puretext LaTeX, Markdown, R.