Some Elements of a Progressive International Trade Policy
There are other ways to organize U.S. international trade. The neoliberal free trade of recent decades and the trade restrictions of Trumpian tariffs are not the only options.
Here's what I've got for this week:
(1) Jason Stanley, Detroit's Drought of Democracy. Last week's links included a piece about water privatization in Detroit; this piece is from the New York Times' philosophy blog, The Stone, by one of my oldest friends. Jason gets a huge audience in The Stone, and this time a blogger from the Detroit Metro Times took note (positively), and a columnist from the Detroit News took note (negatively). Here's a compilation of our recent coverage of Detroit:
(2) Arthur MacEwan, The Minimum Wage and Inflation. The latest from our current issue, Arthur's "Ask Dr. Dollar" column. (3) Several links on fracking and finance: It's been a year since we had our cover story on fracking by Rob Larson, Frackonomics: The Science and Economics of the Gas Boom. Here are some related pieces I've stumbled on lately, mostly on fracking and finance:
(4) Gerald Friedman, What Happened to the Recovery? Pt. 1. Over at our sister blog, Triple Crisis, we have posted Pt. 1 of Jerry Friedman's two-part "Economy in Numbers" on the so-called recovery. We'll post Pt. 2 at Triple Crisis later this week, and I'll post the whole thing together on the D&S site.
--Chris Sturr