The Effect of International Scrutiny on Manufacturing Workers: Evidence from the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh
Why an analysis that argues that post-Rana Plaza interventions hurt workers in the long run looks shoddy.
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Foreign Direct Investment and Supply Chains in a Risky World
More forecasts on the future of supply chains.
Read more...Mauritius Oil Spill Tragedy: How and Why the MV Wakashio Ran Aground, and Aftermath
A mysterious course change, a birthday party, oil on the beaches, and a billion dollars in compensation (maybe).
Read more...“Savings Glut” Fables and International Trade Theory: An Autopsy
Debunking Bernanke’s pet excuse for the global financial crisis, the savings glut hypothesis, which of course exculpates the Fed.
Read more...Re-Localizing Industry, One Thing at a Time
Even Covid-19 can have a silver lining: industry supply chain breakage and relocalization initiatives are bringing some manufacturing back to the US.
Read more...The TPP Is Dead! Long Live the TPP!
Beware! The TPP is still skulking around, rebranded as the CPTPP. As Lambert says, “Kill it with fire”.
Read more...Why Taiwan Is at the Heart of a Geopolitical Struggle to Produce Cutting-Edge Computer Chips
Why Taiwan could serve as a prototype for a tech proxy war.
Read more...International Trade Has Cost Americans Millions of Jobs. Investing in Communities Might Offset Those Losses
After too many years of “Let them eat training,” a more practical answer to trade-induced job losses.
Read more...Remembering John Weeks
John Weeks was a leading critic of economic orthodoxy who dedicated his life to building a better world.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Liberal Elites Will Create Conditions for Another Trump
Thomas Frank: If Biden and the corporate Democrats continue to deny the concerns of populist movements, they ensure a new Trump will emerge
Read more...Plastics in Oceans Will Triple By 2040, Absent Immediate Drastic Action
Unless we take drastic steps NOW- and stop allowing plastics pushers to set the agenda- plastics in the world’s oceans will triple in twenty years, by 2040.
Read more...More on Deaths of Despair: New Study Links Early Job Loss to Higher Rates of Overdose Deaths and Suicides
Another look at deaths of despair confirms the danger of job loss and even too-early retirement.
Read more...Ilargi: What? Default? Where? Dollar?
Why the dollar is not losing its privileged status any time soon.
Read more...For the Birds: Our Avian Friends Compile Amazing Flight Records, While Most Humans Remain Grounded by COVID-19
Birds continue to fly, according to new information released by the British Trust for Ornithology, untrammelled by COVID-19.
Read more...Even If Joe Biden Wins in a Blowout, the ‘Global Economy’ Is Not Coming Back
Why corporations are past the high water mark for global commerce.
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