Filling in frameworks -- Machine as metaphor -- Instructions and incentives -- Choices and commands -- Specialization and sustainability -- Trade and trust -- Finance and fluctuations -- Policy in practice -- Macroeconomics and misgivings -- Concluding contemplation

This paper studies the role of reduced barriers to international trade from two dimensions: (i) the implementation of Free Trade Agreements and (ii) declining "border effects". Our empirical estimates suggest that diminished border effects accounts for the bulk of the increase in international...