BOSTON — The Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS) will hold its second debate this year on Nov. 5, taking on a timely question: Will higher tariffs create a better future for the United ...

Debates over world trade often conflate two distinct issues. The first is how to expand the efficiencies that occur when international trade is broadly balanced and countries are able to benefit from ...

Mr. Irwin, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, worked on trade policy while on the staff of President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers. During the first game of this year’s World ...

Editor’s Note: Katherine Tai has spent decades working on trade issues, including as U.S. Trade Representative in the Biden administration. She ushered in the first “worker-centered" trade policy in U ...

Globalization’s first age some 200 years ago sheds light on today’s turn toward economic nationalism The “first age” of globalization was beset by contradictions. In the 60 years or so before World ...

When President Donald Trump announced a barrage of punishing tariffs on April 2—“Liberation Day”—he promised a new “golden age” for America where “jobs and factories will come roaring back into our ...

Former Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) argued globalized free trade creates broad benefits but harms some U.S. workers amid President Donald Trump’s increasing tariff policy during an event at Georgetown ...