The entire idea of burning biomass for "renewable" energy inevitably is going to lead to rich parts of the world burning the forests of poor parts of the world. Or not even just the poorest parts of the world, but even the rural U.S. South....
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An unfortunate side effect of the pandemic globally has been the rushing back of child labor after decades of decline. In 2020, the world marked a rise in child labor.
Marc Levinson is a union economist who has done a lot of great work for a very, very long time. He has an interesting Times op-ed on how the ship.
Sadly, with all the problems in the U.S., the horrors of the globalized factory system are not getting any attention these days, not that they received enough attention before Trump. But the lives of people producing material for your daily consumption is still hard and...
COVID-19 is not a creation of globalization, but it's rapid spread around the globe is. And it is just one of many, many diseases that globalization has whipped around the.
Daniel McDowell, Aditi Sahasrabuddhe and Kindred Winecoff have a terrific explainer on what the Fed is doing in the face of growing global economic crisis. They focus on four points:.
Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman have been doing important work on what they call "weaponized interdependence": Globalization has transformed the dynamics of security. In Rosa Brooks’ (2016) evocative description, over the last two decades war ‘became everything’ thanks to interdependence. Flows of finance, information and...
I want to thank Dan for his discussion of progressives and trade from a few days ago. I would have liked to respond sooner but I just got back from.
On January 1, 1994, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) based in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, began a rebellion to coincide with the implementation of the North.
As part of my goal to get 0 comments per post, on a day dominated by the defeat of Roy Moore, it's time for a post on the recent transitions in the Mexican diet, particularly in the context of a post-NAFTA North America. This is...
Automation is a huge social problem for the United States, but it's going to be even more so for Asia and Latin America. Prophets.
Look at your clothing. Where did it come from? Who grew the cotton? Who put it together in the sweatshop? Here is an excellent photo essay to help you. Now.