Published in Foreign Policy, 2024
This essay argues that the United States will do well for the world and even better for itself if it becomes better assured and more confident of its place in the international system. That, however, does not mean its being no. 1.
Recommended citation: Quah, Danny. 2024. "Why America Should Drop Its Obsession With Being No. 1" Foreign Policy (Fall) pp. 41-43.
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Published in Besley, Tim, Bucelli, Irene, and Velasco, Andres (eds.) The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century, 2025
This paper analyses the impact of trade and technology on aggregate economic performance where poor nations are cheap. The most successful economies are extraordinarily rich without having to be unusually complex.
Recommended citation: Quah, Danny. 2025. "Response to Ricardo Hausmann by Danny Quah: The Trade-Technology Relation in Small and Poor Economies", in Besley, Tim, Bucelli, Irene, and Velasco, Andres (eds.) The London Consensus: Economic Principles for the 21st Century.
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Published in Ing, Lili Yan and Rodrik, Dani (eds) The New Global Economic Order, Routledge, 2025
This paper argues that in a fracturing world order, paradoxically, geopolitics and trade align. It is, thus, a fallacy that geopolitics and economics provide a balance through working in opposition in a fragmenting global economy.
Recommended citation: Quah, Danny. 2026. "Correlated Trade and Geopolitics Driving a Fractured World Order." Ch. 5, pp. 54-66, in Ing, Lili Yan and Rodrik, Dani (eds.) The New Global Economic Order, Routledge.
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Published in IMF Finance and Development, 2025
This article argues that international cooperation can advance even when the most powerful players are at odds.
Recommended citation: Quah, Danny. 2025. "Multilateralism Can Survive the Loss of Consensus" IMF Finance and Development (Sep), pp. 12-13
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