Trump has said trade wars are “good and easy to win.” History begs to differ. The Smoot-Hawley Act and ensuing trade wars were not good for the country and not…

rdan Finacial Times points us to WTO thinking on trade issues and cap and trade agreements. (log in required) Countries implementing cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse gases may be able to…

…To import $1 million of goods, for example, an importer would need ICs that were the byproduct of $1 million of exports. The inevitable result: trade balance.” Carbon Cap anyone?…

…farming practices that capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Even John McCain, who claims fellow Republican and early conservationist Teddy Roosevelt as his hero, proposes to limit carbon emissions as…

…carbon dioxide emissions will continue “for several centuries”. I fault Koonin seriously here, because there is plenty of evidence that some of the human generated carbon dioxide will remain in…

…with climate change deniers and their interested errors makes rational discussion difficult. Any discussion of geoengineering might play into the hands of opponents of cap and trade and carbon taxes….

…Object and Effects of Trades Union, an anonymously published version of a report from a Royal Commission from 1833 by E. C. Tufnell, described the motives of the trade unions…

by Rebecca Wilder It’s the Exchange Rate, Stupid Eurostat released trade figures today, where the trade balance (exports less imports) surged €3.7 bn in the month of June (link to…

…‘trade treaties’. (Another post is needed for the most recent three examples…). Last week’s Senate bill on Chinese currency intervention predictably enough brought out all the same old arguments about…

by Dan Crawford (Rdan) Voxeu carries a post on research into increasing global trade, technology, and wages patterns: The theoretical case for the potential effect of trade on the distribution…