[Full post in Cross-Examination at NCPA Debate Central] China’s government is struggling to halt industrial and automobile pollution, even inspecting barbeques. Heavy winter smog in Beijing and other Chinese cities is ugly and causes...
Posted at Debate Central, Cross-Examination Economists Tyler Cowen & Noah Smith at Bloomberg are “Debating Free Trade and the Populist Backlash” (November 1, 2016 1:16 PM EDT). For NSDA (and NCFCA) debaters, the benefits, costs, and...
In “Why the Industrial Revolution didn’t happen in China,” (The Washington Post, October 28, 2016), economic historian Joel Moykr notes the role of political decentralization and political competition across Europe compared to China: China...
Ending the Cuba trade embargo would shift sugar production back to Cuba and away from ecologically fragile lands in the U.S. “Protect the Everglades, not sugar farmers,” (Florida Sun Sentinel, Feb 16, 2017) argues: Unfortunately, the most important...
Since mid-August posts on the U.S./China topics are at the Debate Central website. Fifteen or so years ago, NCPA invited me to provide content for their new Debate Central site. Working with David Beers,...
NAFTA’s United States, Canada, and Mexico as well as the European Union are regional trade associations assembled from very different regional, political, economic, and social networks. Plus the governments of each U.S. and Mexican...
Wind and solar power subsidies jolted and damaged European economies, especially Spain and Italy. China’s economy received a similar jolt in 2015. Below we consider the claim that U.S. trade policy encourages Chinese government...
The Oregonian’s OregonLive post, “Case for free trade confirmed by new research” (March 30, 2016) reviews recent debates among politicians, pundits, and economists over the benefits of internationals trade and new trade agreements (and...
“Externalities” are costs imposed on others. A factory or farm dumping waste into local rivers or lakes is “externalizing” a cost of production. Reducing production costs by pushing air and water pollution on others...
U.S. federal government policies with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) involve trade and investment plus travel for tourism, education, and employment, plus migration. People and firms in the U.S. make agreements (contracts) with...
