Steve Bannon v. Blinkered Economists on “Free Trade”
Macroeconomists are making Steve Bannon look good.
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G20 Climate Commitments and China’s One Belt One Road
A critical look at some wishful thinking about climate change and China’s One Belt One Road initiative.
Read more...After Neoliberalism, What Next?
The neoliberal order has failed and is creating more and more political and social upheaval. Some elements of a new system may be in sight.
Read more...Trump as “Consequence, Not Cause” of the Collapse in the Post Cold War Consensus
How press and pundit fixation on Trump diverts public attention from power structures that work against ordinary Americans.
Read more...Renegotiating NAFTA: The Role of Global Supply Chains
Unfortunately, redoing NAFTA in a way that benefits US workers is not a trivial task.
Read more...The Two Capitalisms: Electric Batteries as a Case Study in US Magical Thinking vs. Chinese Vertical Integration
Electric vehicle batteries illustrate how the Chinese use control of raw materials and end markets to built vertically integrated industries.
Read more...Lack of Hope in America: The High Costs of Being Poor in a Rich Land
Tying the loss of economic mobility to the loss of hope and personal despair.
Read more...Food, the UK and Brexit: An Even Messier Reprise of Corn Laws Politics?
Surprisingly, or maybe not so, food is emerging as a flash point in Brexit politics.
Read more...Trilemmas and Financial Instability
Examining national policy tradeoffs in a world of perhaps too much in the way of free and easy international money movements.
Read more...Sleeping Monster: The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) and Labor
TiSA’s effect on professional service and contract labor.
Read more...Sleeping Monster: The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), Scheduling, and “Standstill” and “Ratchet” Clauses
How TiSA could prevent the delivery of possible universal concrete material benefits, like Medicare for All
Read more...Is Productivity Growth Becoming Irrelevant?
Measured GDP and gains in human welfare eventually may become entirely divorced.
Read more...The Minefield of Historical Communism
What does the experience of historical communism imply about modern politics and about possibilities in the future?
Read more...Sleeping Monster: The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) and Its Expansive Definition of “Services”
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. In this post, I continue what is starting to feel to me like a Lewis and Clark expedition through the unexplored territory of “trade” “deals”[1], having engaged New Zealand activist Jane Kelsey, who authored the new report TiSA: Foul Play (PDF) as my guide. Because I’m feeling my way into […]
Read more...Sleeping Monster: The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) and the Supply Chain
The extraordinary ambitions of TiSA (the Trade in Services Agreement)
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