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Meeting Globalization's Challenges: Policies to Make Trade Work for All
Leading economists propose solutions to the problems of globalization
Globalization has expanded economic opportunities throughout the world, but it has also left many people feeling dispossessed, disenfranchised, and angry. Luís Catão and Maurice Obstfeld bring together some of today's top economists to assess the benefits, costs, and daunting policy challenges of globalization. This timely and accessible book combines incisive analyses of the anatomy of globalization with innovative and practical policy ideas that can help to make it work better for everyone.
Meeting Globalization's Challenges draws on new research to examine the channels through which international trade and the diffusion of technology have enhanced the wealth of nations while also producing unequal benefits within and across countries. The book provides needed perspectives on the complex interplay of trade, deindustrialization, inequality, and the troubling surge of nationalism and populism―perspectives that are essential for crafting sound economic policies. It tackles the vexing issue of how to most effectively compensate globalization's losers and reintegrate them into job markets. The book also explores how to design social insurance policies that can mitigate the risks posed by automation and offshoring, such as mass unemployment and its inherent dangers to democracy.
With a foreword by International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde and a history-rich synthesis by Catão and Obstfeld of main policy takeaways, Meeting Globalization's Challenges features contributions by Ufuk Akcigit, Edward Alden, François Bourguignon, Angus Deaton, Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Jeffry Frieden, Gordon H. Hanson, Keyu Jin, Lori G. Kletzer, Anne Krueger, Paul Krugman, Nina Pavcnik, Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, Dani Rodrik, Michael Trebilcock, Laura D. Tyson, Martin Wolf, and Ernesto Zedillo.
Globalization has expanded economic opportunities throughout the world, but it has also left many people feeling dispossessed, disenfranchised, and angry. Luís Catão and Maurice Obstfeld bring together some of today's top economists to assess the benefits, costs, and daunting policy challenges of globalization. This timely and accessible book combines incisive analyses of the anatomy of globalization with innovative and practical policy ideas that can help to make it work better for everyone.
Meeting Globalization's Challenges draws on new research to examine the channels through which international trade and the diffusion of technology have enhanced the wealth of nations while also producing unequal benefits within and across countries. The book provides needed perspectives on the complex interplay of trade, deindustrialization, inequality, and the troubling surge of nationalism and populism―perspectives that are essential for crafting sound economic policies. It tackles the vexing issue of how to most effectively compensate globalization's losers and reintegrate them into job markets. The book also explores how to design social insurance policies that can mitigate the risks posed by automation and offshoring, such as mass unemployment and its inherent dangers to democracy.
With a foreword by International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde and a history-rich synthesis by Catão and Obstfeld of main policy takeaways, Meeting Globalization's Challenges features contributions by Ufuk Akcigit, Edward Alden, François Bourguignon, Angus Deaton, Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Jeffry Frieden, Gordon H. Hanson, Keyu Jin, Lori G. Kletzer, Anne Krueger, Paul Krugman, Nina Pavcnik, Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, Dani Rodrik, Michael Trebilcock, Laura D. Tyson, Martin Wolf, and Ernesto Zedillo.
304 pages, Hardcover
Published November 5, 2019
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December 27, 2023
This was a long one. Took me a year of reading it on and off.
Some great essays. One memorable one about Chinese economics by the brilliant Keyu Jin. China shocked the world with its hyper efficient economy and rapid growth.
Paul Krugman is a bit funny. He claims economists failed to understand at the outset Globalization would cause domestic unemployment to rise in key manufacturing regions (e.g the Rust Belt). I don’t have a PHD in economics but I think that’s pretty self explanatory.
Also the title reads “Policies to make trade work for all” yet several times in the book it says trade has winners and losers. How does that work especially when trade has a perpetual winner and thus a perpetual loser. It does not adequately a knowledge the colonial nature of trade. It does say gains from trade needs to be distributed among the losers as well but I have not seen this happen. In fact, while international trade has grown, redistribution has shrunk due to ideological fears and lack of political will.
Some great essays. One memorable one about Chinese economics by the brilliant Keyu Jin. China shocked the world with its hyper efficient economy and rapid growth.
Paul Krugman is a bit funny. He claims economists failed to understand at the outset Globalization would cause domestic unemployment to rise in key manufacturing regions (e.g the Rust Belt). I don’t have a PHD in economics but I think that’s pretty self explanatory.
Also the title reads “Policies to make trade work for all” yet several times in the book it says trade has winners and losers. How does that work especially when trade has a perpetual winner and thus a perpetual loser. It does not adequately a knowledge the colonial nature of trade. It does say gains from trade needs to be distributed among the losers as well but I have not seen this happen. In fact, while international trade has grown, redistribution has shrunk due to ideological fears and lack of political will.
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