206. Paul Krugman talks trade, industrial policy, and Trump

Trade Talks | PIIE by Peterson Institute for International Economics

Mar 16, 202542:13News & Politics

Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman (City University of New York) joins for a wide-ranging conversation on historical lessons as well as some new thinking about international trade, the “agglomeration economies” driving geograph...

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