…it is vitally important to use some of the gains from trade to offset those sectoral losses — as Paul Krugman recently wrote, “free trade is politically viable only if…

Free Trade and Retaliation Up to now, most of my arguments — and Kash’s — in favor of free trade have been premised on the idea that access to inexpensive…

Stiglitz on globalization: the MNE’s bought the law by Linda Beale Trans Pacific Partnership bad for the middle class, but how bad? by Kenneth Thomas Latest World Trade Organization lunacy…

…peripheral countries from German savings imbalances.” So now we can see why the US Treasury is upset with Germany for still running such high trade surpluses, and why it points…

…a “trade deal” that mostly does not deal with trade. Of the 29 chapters in this document, only five cover traditional trade matters! The other chapters amount to a devilish…

Yves Smith and Dean Baker on Secrets in Trade…

…weakening the European project to boot. Meanwhile, the virtuous Germans keep on cranking out trade surpluses and have to bail out Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain. And it’s pretty clear…

…is the period when international trade and finance began to grow most quickly, and the observed trend would indicate that globalization rewarded the rich. But if each country is treated…

…of international trade, uniting them with Europe and Africa in a complex web of transactions. Slavery opened investment opportunities for Europe and allowed northern Europe to trade its manufactures for…

…“…even well-educated persons still occasionally speak of “laws of political economy” as being “violated” by the practice of statesmen, trades-unions and other individuals and bodies. You can’t “break” scientific laws….