I have not read much of Robert Fogel's work, not much at all, but I may need to read more of it. A Fine Theorem , one of the more un...

Last February Sarah and I* speculated in a short  National Interest  article that a EU-US trade deal (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Pa...

Reading this update on the possible US-EU trade deal that Sarah and I wrote about previously , I am struck by two things: 1. French film ...

Matt Yglesias is being raked across the coals for this . It's understandable. The best time to parrot an econ 101 line is not imme...

A nice discussion of my article with SBD at The National Interest  has taken place in comments at the International Economic Law and Policy ...

Apropos of my recent article with SBD in The National Interest  is this , ( via Jonathan Dingell ): UPDATE: There's some good discussi...

We've been blogging about trade and trade networks a decent amount lately, so I was interested to see a new NBER working paper titled ...

Talk of a potential bilateral trade deal between the US and EU is heating up, probably because Obama gave it attention in his State of the U...

Continuing my mini-trend on research on the domestic politics of trade, here's a new one from Hicks, Milner, and Tingley in ISQ . Abstr...

Richard Baldwin on the state of the art in empirical international trade economics: The most empirically successful model in internation...

Standard stories of trade politics often begin with reference to Olson's logic of collective action, which argues that small groups with...

The news that the US and EU will begin negotiating a bilateral trade treaty next year is welcome to me. This could be a big deal. For all t...

This NY Times  article  is over a month old now, but I'm highlighting it anyway because it is illustrative of trade politics dynamics th...

Guesting at Noah Smith's place, Dan Murphy seeks to explain why the financial sector grew to be such a large component of the US's ...

A couple of years ago I posted a link to a paper  by Mansfield and Mutz that called into question basic materialist explanations for trade p...

It's been awhile, but I used to tussle with Public Citizen a some. I kind of stopped paying attention to them, however, as I found thei...

Dani Rodrik has an op-ed on attitudes towards trade and ethics: In the very first meeting, he had asked the students how many of them pr...

One thing that we hear a lot is that global economic performance increasingly depends on the BRICSAM countries, particularly China which is ...

Matt Yglesias starts with a cute little point about trade politics -- the Marvel corporation has defined the X-Men as mutants rather than h...

Layna Mosley, one of our IR profs, has a very good op-ed in the NY Times that summarizes some of her recent research on the effect of inte...