Trade Talks
Chad P. Bown
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 developments with insights and economic analysis from one of the world's top trade geeks.
Episodes
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Oct 26, 2020 • 28min
141. Britain's Trade Policy, 1815-2016
From Corn Laws to Imperial Preferences to joining the EEC, Britain's current trade policy conundrum has echoes from the past.
Oct 12, 2020 • 24min
140. Is shipping ship-shape?
Containerized shipping is an odd business in normal times. What happens when you add a pandemic and a trade war?
Sep 24, 2020 • 20min
139. How Technology Enabled Trade: Digitization and Offshoring
At the turn of the century, electronic communication suddenly helped firms fragment production, but only some went overseas.
Sep 11, 2020 • 18min
138. Trade and the worst financial crisis of the century—in 1866
London's central role in 19th century trade finance meant that its bank failure had effects for decades.
Aug 31, 2020 • 33min
137. Imbalances, Inequality, and Trade
China, the US and Germany each suffer from inequality and trade imbalances. Their linkages, and how policymakers try to fix them.
Aug 13, 2020 • 24min
136. Vaccine economics, and why we need trade to end the pandemic
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala explains one way to solve the economic problem of how to manufacture and globally distribute a vaccine.
Jul 28, 2020 • 29min
135. All you need to know about the race to lead the WTO
What people want from the next leader of the World Trade Organization.
Jul 10, 2020 • 39min
134. Opportunities and setbacks for Black workers in the 20th century
Economic gains for America's Black workers stalled in the 1970s. The role of migration, policy and trade.
Jun 29, 2020 • 44min
133. How one man and some metal boxes revolutionized global trade
Malcom McLean spurred containerized shipping in the 1950s. The impact on people, ports, cities and, of course, trade, was massive.
Jun 21, 2020 • 28min
132. US-China Trade War: The Negotiators
How the people Presidents Trump and Xi tapped to negotiate helped shape the US-China trade relationship over 2017-2020.
