I am consistently amazed at the resistance people have to the idea that a reasonable percentage of Trump voters cast a ballot for him because of economic anxiety. I know it's easier to call everyone a bunch of racists. And some of them are! And...
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Overall, Hillary Clinton embarrassed Donald Trump last night. But let's not kid ourselves, Trump absolutely crushed her on trade in the early part of the debate. I found it highly.
Above: More beneficiaries of free trade There are some winners in globalization and a lot of losers. Among the winners are capitalist elites in nearly all nations. Among the losers.
As I have been saying throughout the election season, the collapse of the working class thanks to capital mobility is going a long way to feed Donald Trump's popularity. The fuzzy video, shot by a worker on the floor of a Carrier factory here in...
epa01150223 Two men carrying goods to be recycled ride their flatbed tricycles past a red Porsche Cayman parked outside a high end housing complex in Beijing,.
Now you can watch for yourself, as the furnace manufacturer Carrier announces to its workers that it is going to move 1300 union jobs from Indiana to Mexico. I challenge.
Marshall Steinbaum reviewed Out of Sight, along with Gabriel Zucman's The Hidden Wealth of Nations in The Boston Review and it was largely positive. An excerpt: Rather than escaping over-burdensome regulation, Loomis’s book points to a different understanding of what motivates a political project to...
In America, property rights are king. The right to property is part of the national mythology. And I get that. But I am constantly curious as to how competing rights.
On December 5, 1894, Alabama repealed its child labor law in order to convince the officials of the Dwight Manufacturing Company, a textile corporation, to move its mill operations from.
This Vox piece on 5 products you buy that drive human rights abuses is good enough. I talk about the shrimp industry at some length in my forthcoming capital mobility book. If you are buying frozen shrimp, just assume you are either supporting slave labor...
Too often, we, even liberals, create politically convenient artificial barriers between the globalized economy and national boundaries. Specifically, we have outsourced the vast majority of our industrial production overseas while.
Above: The Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, i.e., Narendra Modi's vision of the Indian economy. I understand that workers in India need jobs, but I'm not sure that Narendra.