Globalization
Digital Money: Implications for Emerging Market and Developing Economies
A clinical look at digital money ideas for developing economies finds the benefits are narrower than boosters would have you believe.
Trump’s China Trade Deal Handwave
There's not much to like in the Trump "Phase 1" China trade deal because there's not much to it.
Conservative Win in Britain Means More Than Economic Trouble Ahead
In an uncertain economic context, the Conservative election win means a loss for health and the environment.
Inequality and Trade: Simulation Evidence for 54 Developing Nations
A full-throated defense of more liberalized trade for developing nations...when the data is somewhat mixed.
Why US Hostility Towards Chinese Tech Groups Feels Like Déjà Vu
US reactions to Chinese competitive threats are an awful lot like the ones to Japan of the 1980s, but the US now has a lot less leverage.
We Asked, You Answered: Here’s How The Climate Changed Your Lives In 2019
No matter where you live, climate change will find you
The 2019 SASE’s Alice Amsden Book Award goes to ‘The Specter of Global China’ by Ching Kwan Lee
The winner of the inaugural Alice Amsden Book Award of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics is The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa, by Ching Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los … Continue reading →
Boris Johnson’s win is huge victory for anti-globalization movement
Boris Johnson’s crushing win in Britain should be seen by progressives as a huge victory for the anti-globalization movement that grew out of the 1999 Battle of Seattle. This election was another referendum on Brexit, on the public’s overwhelming resistance to the massive
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In the Shadow of Impeachment, Neoliberal Democrats Hand Trump a Victory With USMCA (“NAFTA 2.0”)
By Thomas Neuburger. Originally published at DownWithTyranny! Donald Trump discussing the new NAFTA trade deal (source) If Trump gets re-elected, if Big Tech continues to evade accountability, if imperial adventures continue abroad, if migrant farmworkers cannot feed their families, you can trace it back to this Tuesday, and the actions a House Speaker took while […]