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“Eddie Fishman worked in the US State Department and helped to shape some of the policies that we’ve seen unfolding and being used against Russia, for example, over the Ukraine war. And although it sounds like a potentially rather dry tale, it’s enlivened by the way he takes you into the human side of it. People are trying to think creatively about ways in which they can apply the tools of economics to some pretty tense geopolitical confrontations. Fishman has really captured the zeitgeist of the moment. I was talking recently to one of my colleagues, who said that the word ‘chokepoints’ has become part of the language in which people talk about sanctions, tariffs etc.” Read more...
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