Trade agreements
The Corporate Power Narrative: How Corporations Benefit from Economic Globalization
In an excerpt from their new book, Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters, Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp...
Lobbying for Globalization: How the Winners Dominate the Politics of Trade Agreements
Lobbying on free trade agreements has been dominated by a few very large firms, which experience large gains as a result of the entry...
With the US and China, Two Types of Capitalism Are Competing With Each Other
Capitalism’s global victory has been achieved through two different types of capitalist systems: the liberal meritocratic capitalism that has developed incrementally in the West,...
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...
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...
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...
