Trade
The Real “China Shock”: Political Fallout from Slowing Exports in China
As China’s export growth has slowed down over the past five years, workers have responded by taking to the streets with increasing frequency. The...
Schumpeter and Brexit: Same Old Story, Different Ending
Joseph Schumpeter wouldn’t have been surprised by Brexit, but would blame British elites for putting it to a referendum and then walking away from the...
The Costs of Trump’s Import Tariffs Have Landed Entirely on US Citizens
US importers and consumers experienced $12.3 billion in added tax costs and another $6.9 billion from unrecoverable reductions in welfare arising from the 2018...
What Comes After Trickle-Down Trade Liberalization?
The United States needs to rethink its trade policy. A new report offers a blueprint, consisting of ten major reforms.
US trade policy is at...
The Malleable Demand for Trade Protection: How Political Campaigns Can Easily Manipulate Public Attitudes Toward Public Policy
Where does today’s anti-trade sentiment come from? A new study finds that people are particularly sensitive to job losses and outsourcing due to international...
The Inequality Paradox: Rising Inequalities Nationally, Diminishing Inequality Worldwide
Workers in emerging economies benefitted from globalization and workers in rich countries, on balance, did not. Overturning globalization, however, will neither work nor bring...
Obesity and Globalization: Evidence from Mexico
Has Mexico imported its obesity epidemic from the United States? A new study suggests that the answer to this question is "yes."
The obesity epidemic...
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (September 16–22)
The White House is getting ready to go after tech platforms and the EU is going after Amazon, while Louisiana’s attorney general wants to break...
Is China’s International Joint Venture Policy Effective in Diffusing Technology?
The US administration launched a trade war against China in response to what it sees as unfair trade practices—especially the requirement that foreign firms...
Baldwin on Globalization: “A Lot of the Narrative Is Based on the US as If It Were the Whole World”
Richard Baldwin, professor of international trade at the Graduate Institute of Geneva and editor-in-chief of VoxEU.org, talks to ProMarket about the convergence between the...
