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An Alliance For Open Trade: How To Counter Trump’s Tariffs

Julian Hinz, Moritz Schularick, Keith Head, Isabelle Mejean & Emanuel Ornelas | Center for Economic Policy Research | 07/27/2025

The US administration’s latest threat to impose sweeping new tariffs on many of its closest allies signals a renewed embrace of aggressive unilateralism and misunderstood economics. This column argues that…

The state of globalisation: A new eBook

Richard Baldwin & Michele Ruta | CEPR | 06/27/2025

Three forces have always shaped globalisation – technology, policies, a...

We Never Had Free Trade

Robert Kuttner | The American Prospect | 04/08/2025

The U.S. trading system since the 1970s has screwed American workers. But the main cul...

The Export-Led Model is Evolving, Not Dying

Jayant Menon | East Asia Forum | 03/23/2024

While the rise in anti-globalisation sentiment may have preceded COVID-19,...

Can Facts Reverse the Backlash to Globalization?

Kirk Kardashian | Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth | 08/16/2023

One of the defining transformations of the 2...

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