domingo, 31 de julho de 2016

Menkiw sobre a popularidade do protecionismo

Why Voters Don’t Buy It When Economists Say Global Trade Is Good

One defining characteristic of recent political debate — in the United States and abroad — is anxiety about foreigners.
You see it in Donald Trump’s railing against immigrants and trade agreements. It may well be part of Hillary Clinton’s shift, under pressure from Bernie Sanders, against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which she once embraced as “the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade.”
You certainly see it in the British decision to exit the European Union, which has become known as Brexit. That vote flummoxed most political forecasters, and it makes one wonder whether Americans might also produce a surprise in November.
What’s going on?

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