Trade Talks

Trade Talks

By Chad P. BownBusiness Education

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Trade Talks episodes

July 16, 2023 188. Did responsible sourcing by multinationals help workers in poor countries?
What happened to workers and others in Costa Rica when global companies imposed new responsible sourcing codes of conduct on their suppliers.
40 min
July 09, 2023 187. Industrial policy and the rise of Romania's Silicon Valley
How a 2001 income tax break for Romanian software programmers helped transform the country's information technology sector.
52 min
June 26, 2023 186. How US lead regulations hurt Mexican babies
Higher US lead standards in 2009 resulted in more production and pollution from Mexican plants. Nearby infants and kids suffered.
32 min
June 18, 2023 185. The historic collapse of Switzerland's watch industry
New quartz technology and competition from Japan devastated the dominant Swiss watch industry of the 1970s. What happened next?
29 min
May 07, 2023 184. The US-EU fights over electric vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act
EVs headlined the transatlantic dispute over the Inflation Reduction Act. That feud may be over, but other conflicts remain.
47 min
April 30, 2023 183. How the United States cleaned up container ship pollution
In 2012, the EPA started regulating maritime emissions of air pollutants. The shipping industry's response offers lessons for other countries.
25 min
April 23, 2023 182. Is China's industrial policy working?
The "Made in China 2025" subsidies both provoked a trade war and inspired similar moves by the US and other economies. But have they worked?
45 min
March 21, 2023 181. US-China trade war fallout: This is what decoupling looks like
How do we reconcile "record-level" US-China imports and exports when tariffs remain on more than half of trade between the two economies?
46 min
March 12, 2023 180. The WTO is in trouble. Econ 101 to the rescue?
How understanding the WTO's past can help foster its revival – including for policy challenges like climate and China's non-market economy.
1 hr 11 min
February 26, 2023 179. Why Taiwan restricts high-tech investment into China
For decades, Taiwan has limited how and how much its tech firms like TSMC could invest in mainland China. Are there lessons for the United States?
36 min

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Chad P. Bown (Peterson Institute for International Economics) hosts a podcast about the economics of international trade and policy. From trade wars to trade deals, this podcast covers trade…

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