Protectionism and Free Trade

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Peter G. Klein

The 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to Berkeley's David Card, MIT's Josh Angrist, and Stanford's Guido Imbens for their work on "natural experiments," a currently fashionable approach to estimating the causal impact of one economic variable on another. 

Daniella Bassi

Some think that beer's history of regulation begins with hops, but beer has been hemmed in by government red tape for much longer.

Ferghane Azihari

Most people understand that it's a good thing when others invest money and capital in your community. But when Canadian investors offered to pour money into France as part of a deal to buy a French company, the regime said no thanks. 

Robert P. Murphy

The impossibility theorem, developed by Nobel-winning economist Robert Mundell, paints a false tradeoff between the free movement of capital, fixed exchange rates, and effective monetary policy. Under a gold standard, all three are a possibility.

Weimin Chen

In a normal world, American spending would have sharply declined during the past year. But a flood of newly printed money has juiced spending and imports. 

Harald Eustachius Tomintz

The problem with the European Union is not that it seeks to integrate Europe's economies. The problem comes from attempts to integrate politics as well.