by jpitney | Oct 18, 2024 | Trade
Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux at WSJ: In 1875 the great British economist Alfred Marshall visited the U.S. to see whether protective tariffs fueled economic growth. Before his visit, Marshall thought the infant industry argument for tariffs might have merit....
by jpitney | Oct 5, 2024 | Economic Policy, Trade
Nathan Gardels at Noema: For all these divergent industrial strategies to succeed in the end depends largely on whether sustained nation-building investment outstrips the duration of protective measures that ought to be only a temporary respite from asymmetrical...
by jpitney | Jul 29, 2024 | Trade
Phillip W. Magness at Cato: James Madison viewed tariffs as necessary to raise revenue but was caught off-guard by early attempts to enact tariffs for industry protection. Alexander Hamilton and Henry Clay supported the use of tariffs to stimulate infant industries....
by jpitney | Aug 15, 2023 | China, Foreign Policy, Trade
A POLITICO article by Terril Yue Jones of the Claremont McKenna College Department of Government: Yntil recently, Qin Gang was one of China’s most prominent American experts and influential policymakers. But after a mysterious, month-long disappearance from public...
by jpitney | May 26, 2023 | China, Claremont McKenna College, Trade
Filip De Mott at Insider: China and the US are both putting national security above the economy, Minxin Pei wrote in Bloomberg. But China’s economy will suffer more, thwarting Beijing’s effort to catch up to the US, he said. “One of them has to be...
by jpitney | May 24, 2023 | California Politics, Trade
Minho Kim at E&E: President Joe Biden is famous as a supporter and patron of passenger trains, but advocates hoping he would jump-start high-speed rail say his manufacturing policies will hinder the climate-friendly transportation. Biden’s strengthening of Buy...
