Washing Machines and China Trade Policy
Washing machines are a big deal. Clothes get dirty and require washing. Around the world, women wash clothes and most wash by hand since they lack access to electricity, or to enough electricity to...
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Reduce Rice Subsidies and Promote Free Trade with Asia
Compared to Thailand, the U.S. government spends far less on rice subsidies. According to CBO estimates cited in the Delta Farm Press (April 3, 2015): The Congressional Budget Office estimates that under the previous...
Gains from U.S. Trade Policy with China and the Four Tigers
In the thick of the 1970s and 1980s Cold War, U.S. economic policy with Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China favored open trade, international investment, and economic integration. Trade with Japan, Hong...
The Great Escape: Open Trade and Investment with Asian Countries
Angus Deaton just won the Nobel Prize in Economics, and his recent book, The Great Escape: health, wealth and the origins of inequality is highly recommended for Stoa debaters researching the Asia trade topic. In Chapter Six,...
Smoothly Running West Coast Ports Key to U.S./Asia Trade
Around the world, private companies have been improving management of port facilities, investing billions to expand and improve operations. The collapse of communism in the USSR and Eastern Europe reveal stunning mismanagement of state...
The Free Trade “Asia Consensus”
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reform its trade policy with one or more of the following nations: China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan. Stoa debaters researching the Asia trade topic will regularly...
In Trade We Trust: Mobilizing Minds Across the Ocean
In explaining the economic way of thinking, we start with the problems and opportunities of scarcity. For every person, family, and society, life confronts us with both problems to be solved and wonders to...
Is Faith in Free Trade Misplaced?
Jeff Madrick, a senior fellow with the Century Foundation, in “Our Misplaced Faith in Free Trade,” an October 3, 2014 opinion column for the New York Times notes: Trade is one of the few areas on...
Trade Reform: Focus on Reducing Chinese (and U.S.) Domestic Subsidies
On both sides of each good or service traded internationally, people and firms prosper. That is, the buyer of a good or service expects to be better off from the exchange, as does the...
Fish Trouble for Asian Trade Policy
Marine natural resource policy was a Stoa debate topic two years ago. Ocean shipping and regional and global fishing issues and disputes turn out to be significant for the coming year’s Stoa resolution: Resolved:...