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Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace - Hardcover

Klein, Matthew C.; Pettis, Michael

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9780300244175: Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300244177 ISBN 13: 9780300244175
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2020

Synopsis

A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers
 
Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize • Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award • A Best Business Book of the Year by Strategy + Business • Selected by Financial Times as one of “Five Books to Boost Your Understanding of Tariffs and Trade Wars”
 
“The authors weave a complex tapestry of monetary, fiscal and social policies through history and offer opinions about what went right and what went wrong. . . . Worth reading for their insights into the history of trade and finance.”—George Melloan, Wall Street Journal
 
Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the interests of the rich at the expense of workers and ordinary retirees. Klein and Pettis trace the origins of today’s trade wars to decisions made by politicians and business leaders in China, Europe, and the United States over the past thirty years. Across the world, the rich have prospered while workers can no longer afford to buy what they produce, have lost their jobs, or have been forced into higher levels of debt. In this thought‑provoking challenge to mainstream views, the authors provide a cohesive narrative that shows how the class wars of rising inequality are a threat to the global economy and international peace—and what we can do about it.

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About the Authors

Matthew C. Klein is the economics commentator at Barron’s.



Michael Pettis is professor of finance at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0300244177
ISBN 13 
9780300244175
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
288
Rating
  • 4.11 out of 5 stars
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