What we still get wrong about women’s role in global economics
From the Enlightenment to today’s ‘tradwives’, three books look at the tension between production and reproduction
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Why global imbalances matter
They lie at the intersection of almost everything that matters in geoeconomics and geopolitics
The case for trade, remade
There are good reasons to believe it is likely to follow the rewiring of global finance earlier this century
Imbalances are back on the global agenda
Policymakers must overcome the mercantilist fallacy that the way to get rich is by running surpluses forever
The essence of economics
Why write about markets at all?