Blogs&Reviews

Migration 1870-1925 and international economic inequality
Bradford DeLong, 10 September 2019

An outtake from Brad DeLong's "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Long Twentieth Century 1870-2016"
The crisis in word trade
Sait Akman, Shiro Armstrong, Carlos Primo Braga, Uri Dadush, Anabel González, Fukunari Kimura, Junji Nakagawa, Peter Rashish, Akihiko Tamura, 04 September 2019

A T20 Task Force on Trade, Investment and Globalization policy brief argues that the world trading system has been remarkably successful in many respects but that the present strain reflects causes which are deep-seated and require a strategic response.
Global digital trade negotiations: The outlook has dimmed but the US has options
Claude Barfield, 25 July 2019

Digital trade negotiations are playing out on a number of levels. Claude Barfield offers a list of priorities for the US in these negotiations.
Trump's mini-trade war with India
Chad Bown, 22 July 2019

Successive US administrations have tried to pry open India's markets by offering trade concessions to get it to play by the multilateral rules. But as Chad Bown describes, President Trump is now reversing course.

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Stereotypes and (in)justice

Diane Coyle, 21 May 2019

Diane Coyle finds "Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime & the Pursuit of Justice" by Brendan O’Flaherty and Rajiv Sethi a fantastic but sobering book.
Views on the minimum wage show economics to be an inexact science

Simon Wren-Lewis, 10 May 2019

Economics is often accused of not being a science. Simon Wren-Lewis argeus that a good test case to see if that is true is the minimum wage.
The German debt brake needs a reform

Michael Hüther, Jens Südekum, 06 May 2019

As the German debt brakes celebrates its 10th anniversary, Michael Hüther and Jens Südekum argue that it has become a burden for the German economy, which badly needs investment in education and infrastructure.
Will a US-China trade deal remove or just restructure the massive 2018 tariffs?

Chad Bown, Eva (Yiwen) Zhang, 01 May 2019

The US and China are now negotiating how to resolve President Donald Trump’s trade war. Chad Bown and Eva Zhang ask what will happen to all of those 2018 tariffs.
A digital crop

Diane Coyle, 29 April 2019

In this post, Diane Coyle reviews three books looking at the digital economy.