Eswar Prasad

Professor@Cornell; Senior Fellow@Brookings. New book--The Doom Loop: Why the World Economic Order Is Spiraling into Disorder

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IMF Podcast about my new book The Doom Loop and the growing erosion of institutions, globalization, and economic stability around the world. @imf_podcast

Listen here:
🎧 Apple: https://t.co/LyKcl8DbjP
🎧 Spotify: https://t.co/uTO3kgw7IZ
▶️ YouTube: https://t.co/xw1CjKoXhB

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@imf_podcast about my new book The Doom Loop and the growing erosion of institutions, globalization, and economic stability around the world.

Listen at https://t.co/glQHRe1FtX or at any of the links below:
🎧 Spotify: https://t.co/uTO3kgw7IZ
▶️ YouTube: https://t.co/xw1CjKoXhB

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“Because of the dynamics of the doom loop, we've seen significant erosion of institutions in practically every country, even in economies that one might think of as paradigms of liberal market-oriented democracies.” @EswarSPrasad on his latest book https://t.co/LPrDqV7dg6

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My op-ed in the NYT "Nearly Half the World Is Bearing the Brunt of Global Disorder. Don’t Expect Richer Countries to Get a Pass." 🔗https://t.co/DESd02NUIf

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My op-ed in the FT "How China could win the geopolitical game—by default" 🔗https://t.co/8fBZkDwbTA

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Spoke with @Bloomberg about the US-Taiwan Trade Pact and the themes in The Doom Loop. 🔗https://t.co/Depk55IXAX

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The Doom Loop mentioned in column by Jeff Sommer in The New York Times (February 15, 2026) 🔗https://t.co/fe8F2ZBYAd

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🎙️New episode just dropped on The Big View! I dive into why the world economy is fragmenting and what that could mean for our future. https://t.co/9jYnbv6lWm

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🎧 On NPR Planet Money: Are we in an economic “doom loop”? Insightful analysis on the forces shaping today’s global economy.
🔗 https://t.co/Pp2vFjz01P

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🌍 On CNBC Asia, Eswar Prasad, author of The Doom Loop, explains how globalization and technology are reshaping domestic politics and pushing leaders toward economic nationalism.
🔗 https://t.co/ozEZCJNgQe

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Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum of the New York Times and I will be talking about my new book (with CSPAN coverage!) at Politics & Prose (@PoliticsProse) at The Wharf in DC. Wed, Feb 11 at 7 pm.
https://t.co/Mn2T9YSxAy

Purchase The Doom Loop: https://t.co/TYs0K2E8AB

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Cornell Chronicle article about The Doom Loop https://t.co/LDzaSCyhXO
Coming out tomorrow!

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My Project Syndicate column about the squeeze middle powers are in—caught between two untrustworthy superpowers but unable to fully coalesce into a unified force “The Middle Power Dilemma” https://t.co/lgh6qMkx1Q

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Review of "The Doom Loop" in the Financial Times
https://t.co/qu9u7VUlau
"Eswar Prasad brings academic and policy expertise to this engaging analysis of the disintegrating postwar order"
Coming out Febuary 3!

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This year’s Davos had a lot of energy—some good, some crazy. And it was a perfect encapsulation of the themes in The Doom Loop!

Links to public sessions I participated in:

Geopolitics: https://t.co/EzqhJc1QNG

China: https://t.co/jIPVIsdkJ2

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At the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos this week. Speaking at one public session on "Geopolitical Risks Outlook for 2026" https://t.co/EzqhJc1QNG. And at various private, closed-door sessions, which is of course where the real action is!

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The Doom Loop featured on Bloomberg TV. (interview starts at the 58:30 mark)
https://t.co/ngIVPQJ2r0
Book Coming out February 3

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My NYT op-ed on how China's massive trade surplus is a drag on the world economy https://t.co/z9GqWY1eyO

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My @FT op-ed on why "China's $1 trillion trade surplus is a problem for Beijing--and the world" https://t.co/uBQikIuijx

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My article in IMF’s Finance & Development magazine “The Stablecoin Paradox” https://t.co/DJjm3Y0EWk Stablecoins are highlighting inefficiencies in existing financial systems, how technology can solve them. Paradoxically, might lead to more concentration of financial power.