In “The Legacy of China’s One-Child Policy,” (Time, Dec. 13, 2016), Hannah Beach reports on the sad reality of China’s misguided 1979 policy of limiting most families to one child. Some costs of China’s family planning, which...
Earlier posts have discussed supply-chain networks that bind U.S. manufacturers with Chinese and Mexican factories producing intermediate goods and materials. “Trump’s Tough Trade Talk Could Damage American Factories,” (New York Times, December 2, 2016)...
Around the world women wash clothes and most wash by hand since they lack access to electricity or enough electricity to power a washing machine. Access to modern washing machines, like access to cars,...
For students researching US/China policy, many tweets from NCPA Debate Central here.
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...
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...
