QOTD : This is why it is so damn frustrating when people say, “Hey, Barack Obama has been great for the private sector economy. Check out th...

Daniel Davies and Alex Tabarrok objected to the graphs of GDP I included in this post on The Great Stagnation . Specifically, they didn...

Tyler Cowen's The Great Stagnation has gotten a lot of attention for both its form and content. (I.e., there's more than a little i...

Now it looks like someone will be. Clyde Prestowitz, former US trade negotiator (among other things), has a new blog dedicated to globaliza...

In anticipation of his new book The Globalization Paradox , Dani Rodrik imagines what a new Bretton Woods arrangement would/should look like...

In the middle of a pretty good post on inequality, Ezra Klein writes: In the 1970s, median household income begins stagnating. But it's...

It looks like my post early this morning about arms sales and economic-political decision making had some pretty fantastic timing. Al-Jazeer...

Remember when I wondered where the anti-globalization protesters went? Turns out they migrated to Canada . It's hard to find clear repo...

Well. I type up a late-night blog post to give myself a temporary break from paper-writing, and wake up to find it the weekend topic du jou...

Drezner points to this WaPo item , noting that IMF protests ain't what they used to be: Opponents of the International Monetary Fund an...

Thomas Friedman, c. 1999 : Hallelujah! The Golden Straightjacket will save us all! Thomas Friedman, c. 2005 : Globalization 3.0 is cool! Wh...

Warning: Above video has Tarantino language in it, so it's probably NSFW. So the French love McDonald's so much that they're pu...

One of William Easterly's students guest-posts on globalization and soccer : Some “soccer economists” argue that nations that are worse ...

Dani Rodrik wants to see some sand thrown in the gears of globalization : The conundrum of global reform is that the proposals that go far e...

My previous post was about how large agri-business conglomerates capture much of the E.U.'s (and U.S.'s) farm subsidies. But common ...

Two recent TED talks of interest to IPE folks. First, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita explains how he can predict the world using game theory. Secon...