Last year was supposed to mark the moment international trade was dismantled. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, we were told, ...
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Amid the headlines and noise of the latest tariffs from Washington and the growing fears about the state of global trade, a quiet movement to support free and open commerce is taking place in world ...
Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, warned in a speech that protectionism erodes productivity. By Alan Rappeport Reporting from Washington The world economy ...
I’ve recently read two books that help clarify the competing sides in today’s growing intellectual debate over free trade, globalization, and neoliberalism. On one side is Trade Wars Are Class Wars ...
Few economists have had a greater impact on the way we talk about global trade and China’s role in the world economy than Michael Pettis. He spoke to Jacobin about Donald Trump’s tariffs and why ...
In our combined 20-plus years of teaching economics in the Alamo City, we’ve learned that many of our students are inherently familiar with the principles we convey. We’re simply putting economic ...
The global economic system under which most countries have operated for the last 80 years is being reset, ushering the world into a new era. Existing rules are challenged while new ones are yet to ...
Researchers studying trade flows amid rising U.S. protectionism found that rerouting increased after tariffs were imposed, though not at the scale many feared. The findings suggest that tariffs based ...