This paper argues that trade and capital account reforms within autocracies underlie the primacy of foreign currency procurement. A longitudinal comparison of four countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan) in the Middle East and North Africa region shows a historical sequencing of reforms....

Tolerance, the mere lsquo;putting up' with disapproved behaviour and practices, is often considered a too negative and passive engagement with difference in the liberal constitutional state. In response, liberal thinkers have either discarded tolerance, or assimilated it to the moral and legal...

With the winds of trade war blowing as they have not done in decades, and left and right agreeing only on protectionism, a leading economist forcefully shows how a free and open economy is still the best way to advance the interests of working Americans.--