Globalization

• Tariffs Make the World Poorer and More Perilous By Eswar Prasad, The New York Times, June 5, 2025
• The Real Story of the ‘China Shock’ The jobs harm was largely local and temporary, while overall jobs and consumer welfare increased.   By  James J. Heckman  and  Hanming Fang, The Wall Street Journal,  May 27, 2025
• How Tariffs Work By June Kim, The New York Times, February 12, 2025
• Manufacturing Towns Hit by the ‘China Shock’ Bounced Back. The Workers Didn’t. By Justin Lahart, The Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2025
• How Trump’s Tariffs on China Changed U.S. Trade, in Charts By Inti Pacheco, The Wall Street Journal, November 25, 2024
  
• Sanctions crushed Syria’s elite. So they built a zombie economy fueled by drugs. By Joby Warrick and Souad Mekhennet, The Washington Post, July 25, 2024 
• How four U.S. presidents unleashed economic warfare across the globe By Jeff Stein and Federica Cocco, The Washington Post, July 25, 2024
• Buy American? Easier Said Than Done. By Jenna Sauers, The New York Times, Jan. 9, 2024 [Review of “Making It in America,” by Rachel Slade.]
  
• Biden’s course for U.S. on trade breaks with Clinton and Obama By David J. Lynch, The Washington Post, August 27, 2023
  
• Why It Seems Everything We Knew About the Global Economy Is No Longer True By Patricia Cohen, The New York Times, June 18, 2023
  
• Opinion What women’s underwear tells us about our trade system By Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post, February 9, 2023
  
• Will remote work make it easier to ship white-collar jobs overseas? By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, August 26, 2022
  
• ‘What have we done?’: six years on, UK counts the cost of Brexit By Toby Helm, Robin McKie, James Tapper & Phillip Inman, The Observer, Sat 25 Jun 2022
  
• Economic Weapons of Mass Destruction By Raghuram G. Rajan, Project Syndicate, Mar 17, 2022 [On economic sanctions]
  
• Tweet by Douglas A. Irwin, Twitter, December 23, 2021
  
• The Persistence of the China Shock By David Autor, Ratioforskning YouTube Channel, November 3, 2021
  
• U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods didn’t bring companies back to the U.S., new research finds
  
  By Jiakun Jack Zhang and Samantha A. Vortherms, The Washington Post, September 22, 2021
  
• The British retailer Marks & Spencer blames Brexit as it closes French stores. By Eshe Nelson, The New York Times, Sept. 16, 2021 [Nice illustration of border effects.] 
• An anniversary for free traders The Economist, June 24, 2021
• Scottish fish prices ‘collapsing’ by as much as 80% due to Brexit bureaucracy, industry warns By Ben Chapman, The Independent, January 12, 2021
  
• U.S. trade policies have disproportionately harmed Black and Latino workers, not just the White working class Trump courted, researchers find By Tracy Jan, The Washington Post, Jan. 8, 2021
  
• The W.T.O. Is Having a Midlife Crisis By Farah Stockman, The New York Times, December 17, 2020
  
• The economic consequences of Sir Robert Peel: A quantitative assessment of the repeal of the Corn Laws By Douglas Irwin and Maksym Chepeliev, VoxEU, 09 December 2020 
  
• W.T.O. Says American Tariffs on China Broke Global Trade Rules By Ana Swanson, The New York Times, Sept. 15, 2020
  
• When Globalization Really Began By Christiane Bird, The New York Times, April 14, 2020 [Review of "THE YEAR 1000: When Explorers Connected the World — and Globalization Began" By Valerie Hansen]
• Data
• New Measures of Prices for Global Trade Commissioner's Corner (blog), Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 15, 2018. Data: https://www.bls.gov/mxp/home.htm
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