Electric vehicle batteries illustrate how the Chinese use control of raw materials and end markets to built vertically integrated industries.
Read more...Tying the loss of economic mobility to the loss of hope and personal despair.
Read more...Surprisingly, or maybe not so, food is emerging as a flash point in Brexit politics.
Read more...Examining national policy tradeoffs in a world of perhaps too much in the way of free and easy international money movements.
Read more...TiSA’s effect on professional service and contract labor.
Read more...How TiSA could prevent the delivery of possible universal concrete material benefits, like Medicare for All
Read more...Measured GDP and gains in human welfare eventually may become entirely divorced.
Read more...What does the experience of historical communism imply about modern politics and about possibilities in the future?
Read more...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...The extraordinary ambitions of TiSA (the Trade in Services Agreement)
Read more...America is undergoing a retail sector crisis, partly related to the increase of competition from online commerce. We review this debate.
Read more...At G20, many key economic issues receive very little attention, unlike many other issues outside its traditional mandate
Read more...Yet another big Brexit disaster in the making.
Read more...Brexit boosters have sidestepped the issue of reconstituting trading arrangements, a major lapse.
Read more...Yet more Brexit bad news just before Theresa May is set to present her Great Repeal Bill.
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