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What’s behind the revolt against global integration?

Christian W. Chun (UNSW): The Dominant and Everyday Discourses of Neoliberalism and Globalization. What’s behind the revolt against global integration? (and more). The revenge of globalisation’s losers: Its failure in the west is down to democracies’ inability to cope with the economic shocks. Is globalization really fueling populism? Yian Q. Mui on why populist uprisings could end a half-century of greater economic ties. Goodbye, globalization? Why trade growth has slowed down — and what it might mean for the global economy. Worlds of inequality: The winners and losers of globalization — must it be this way? Prakash Loungani profiles Dani Rodrik, the Harvard professor whose warnings about the downsides of globalization proved prescient. Dani Rodrik on a progressive logic of trade. The case for free trade is weaker than you think. Free trade is good for everyone — we must keep saying so. The free-trade consensus is dead. Larry Summers on how global trade should be remade from the bottom up.

Pacts Americana: Obama toes the imperial line on trade. Eduardo Porter on how Nafta may have saved many autoworkers’ jobs. Dean Baker on how the question is not “free trade” and globalization, it is free trade and globalization designed to screw workers (and more); and on how the elites deserve more credit for undermining support for economic integration. Jared Bernstein on getting straight about the costs of trade: One reason there’s so much anger about globalization is that we haven’t been honest about the price. Economics has failed America: When it comes to the impact of global trade, the dismal science has done a dismal job explaining how to help workers hurt by globalization. Allison Carnegie on how a lot of people want to restrict free trade — but that would have serious trade-offs. Where jobs are squeezed by Chinese trade, voters seek extremes. Trade with China is tearing our politics apart.

Bill Gates hits out at protectionist rhetoric in US elections. Jordan Weissmann on Bernie Sanders’ bizarre idea of fair trade. If you’re poor in another country, this is the scariest thing Bernie Sanders has said. Is Bernie Sanders the enemy of the world’s poor? Clinton, Sanders supporters differ sharply on U.S. global role. This is what Trump and Sanders get wrong about free trade. Trump can’t bring back our jobs and nor can Clinton: Jobs lost to other countries will most likely stay there. Donald Trump’s trade war could kill millions of U.S. jobs. Caroline Freund on anti-globalization or xenophobia.