Tue 28 Jul in Singapore I, Tim Besley, and other friends at SERC 2026: 1130h-1250h Panel: International Security in a Fractured Global Economy editorialexpress.com/conference/s... 1550h-1710h Papers: Political Economy editorialexpress.com/conference/s... www.DannyQuah.com/Storage/1776...

We all conjecture how tectonic forces are changing work and markets. Here's a day-to-day, where as economists we produce papers and compete in a crowded market for ideas. One datapoint with implications for how we work, but what's your own experience? x.com/DannyQuah/st...

When across the capital cities of Asia I get to talk to academics about economics and world and regional order, it's often these guys

While the course materials are gradually migrating to NUS Canvas, here's a brief outline of what I will be teaching in PP5182 Economic Diplomacy in an Age of Strategic Interdependence (updates at www.DannyQuah.com/Storage/PP51... ).

When rules collapse, small states should not go it alone. But neither should they meekly scurry off to look for the protection of this Great Power or that. www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/w... ari.nus.edu.sg/app-essay-da...

Kai-Fu and I met up in Tower Block 10. So, of course we talked AI and Great Powers, small states and leadership in economic diplomacy, geopolitical shocks and AI agility: if we can't get back rules-based multilateralism our world needs to be OK being multilateral-enough in coalitions of the willing

Here's how. First, get a G-minus group of nations. That's just any group where great-power presence is optional. www.bfm.my/content/podc...

When we say the international economic system is disrupted by geopolitical shocks, the emphasis should be on these shocks differing from natural-event shocks like crop failures or tsunamis. Geopolitical shocks come bearing intentionality. substack.com/@dannyquah/n...

When you run into Nobel Laureate fellow journalist, fellow Princeton alumni, fellow ASEAN in the airport lounge, of course you go Asian and take the wefie.

Our CN-US table, just for fun: substack.com/@dannyquah/n...

Even as each time we all step into a river no longer the same, Wright's Bar remains.

What about Asia might help it navigate the international economics of strategic interdependence? Quah, Danny. 2026. "Asia's Evolving Development Landscape: The International Economics of Strategic Interdependence" (June) www.dannyquah.com/working-pape... Working paper, so comments welcomed

Is US dollar-dominance in the International Monetary System a red herring? How Is Changing A USD-dominant IMS Harder Than Changing World Order? substack.com/profile/1378... www.dannyquah.com/Storage/2026...

We're Princeton alumni. So of course we spent the whole evening discussing distribution requirements and how they become constraints that do not bind, and that the Honor Code no longer is. Also, service to nation and the world.

Asia is more than China and India, and its future might be shaped not by its giants but by its smaller states. When Great Powers practise economic statecraft, they bend the world to their geopolitical will. What goes instead into the smaller state's playbook? nus.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

World order is metastatizing. The wealth of nations is shifting. I was in conversation in Delhi with Vijay Vaitheeswaran on disorder, the futility of power, and how the new global order might look. Who rolled up to ask questions: Gen Z's making macroeconomics great again.

Very early draft, but it's got a title page and a technical appendix (and carefully-crafted LaTeX drawings), and it's been presented to serious scholars, so... Quah, D. 2026. "The Rest of Us: Incentives, not Power, in Rebuilding World Order", LKYSPP (Apr). www.dannyquah.com/Storage/1776...

Wed 29 Apr in Delhi I'm discussing shifts in the global economy with Vijay Vaitheeswaran, The Economist's Global energy and climate innovation editor. events.economistenterprise.com/resilient-fu...

Four decades of the Seoul Forum for International Affairs, and somehow this year a paper on multilateralism namechecks The Last of Us. I'm speaking alongside Victor Cha and Christina Davis, but it's Chatham House Rule. So all I can say is the fungal metaphor for multilateral collapse is underused.

Today if you are not American and cheering on the US administration's foreign policy actions, you are cheering on the actions of an administration that is ever less recognised by the American people. substack.com/@dannyquah/n...

Even as a young assistant professor, Obstfeld seemed to get to make a paper presentation at every macroeconomics conference .. which is good, as every time we read him, our thinking course-corrected. WEAI International Conference, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok www.weai.org/events/18th-...

Boao Forum this year centered on the theme of a shared future and new models of cooperation. I am a big fan of new models of cooperation. Also, whatever happened to the traditional Chinese gift offerings of smartphones, tablets, and powerbanks? substack.com/@dannyquah/n...

PM Lawrence Wong at Boao Forum for Asia: flexible plurilateralism with pathfinder initiatives, with groupings open and inclusive, will complement not replace traditional multilateralism. Importance of greater regional cooperation and integration. Continued growth of groupings such as CPTPP and DEPA.

Andrew Rozanov and I recalled the Santiago Principles - guidelines which the US insisted on so that potential adversaries with large pools of capital invested based only on economic risk-return calculation, not political motivation. Yeah, we had a good laugh at that one. Then we discussed war.

I'm not mad about self-proclaimed middle powers, but not very much should hinge on who exactly takes leadership. Any sensible incentive-compatible coalition is good. "A Constructive Path to Sustainable Trade Reform", Brookings-Rockefeller 17 Rooms Flagship (Mar) www.brookings.edu/articles/a-c...

Sims was someone from a time when giants walked the earth. Macroeconomics has now lost yet another of those giants. substack.com/profile/1378...

When in one afternoon you can have an Ipoh lunch, relive examination fear (even if it's been decades), and go behind the scenes of this most formative separation.

We sit back and marvel at the geopolitical disruptions major powers wreak. We hardly ever ask who is most incentivised to carry out economic statecraft against them. substack.com/@dannyquah/n...

Thu 05 Mar 2026 Bangkok, IMF Asia in 2050 Conference I will be speaking on this panel alongside these distinguished thinkers on the Future of Growth in Asia Depending, I might go all in on rules-based order. www.imf.org/en/news/semi...