history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to …

Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing outcomes from the 2002 and …. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising trade with China and classifying legislator ideologies by congressional voting … interpret these results as supporting a political economy literature that connects adverse economic conditions to support for …

This paper considers the role of policy in an AI-intensive economy (interpreting AI broadly). It emphasizes the speed …

societies always have developed economies and developed polities suggests that the connection between economics and politics … must be a fundamental part of the development process. This paper develops an integrated theory of economics and politics … and limit violence. We call this type of political economy arrangement a natural state. It appears to be the natural way …

The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … concludes with four lessons of history and an agenda for international economists, including more attention to the impact of … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …

A salient feature of globalization in recent decades is the emergence of "global supply chains" in which different … top of these chains. This suggests that the consequences of globalization on wage inequality may be very different in …

-income countries into the global economy. Led by China and India, the share of developing economies in global exports more than doubled … between 1994 and 2008. One feature of new trade patterns is greater South-South trade. China and India have booming demand for …-South commerce overtakes North-North flows. China's export specialization evolves rapidly over time, revealing a capacity to speed up …