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August 7, 2024
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Poll: 63% of Americans Want to Increase Trade with Other Nations, 75% Worry Tariffs Are Raising Consumer Prices
… most don’t connect their ability to buy out-of-season fresh fruit with globalization. Only a third (33%) thought globalization had “a lot” to do with it. A little less than half (45%) thought globalization had “some” to do …
By Emily Ekins
April 7, 2025
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We Have a Bad Globalization Narrative, Not Bad Economics
globalization Recent critiques of international economics may surprise many actual economists. The latest rap against my profession is that we economists were too ideological and optimistic about the benefits of open trade and global markets while ignoring job losses, industrial …
By Kyle Handley
February 6, 2025
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‘De-Globalization’ Still Isn’t Happening (At Least Not Yet)
Buried in yesterday’s Census Bureau release of the latest US international trade data for full-year 2024 was a nice reminder that, for all the talk of tariffs and “de-globalization,” American consumers and companies aren’t having any …
By Scott Lincicome and Alfredo Carrillo Obregon
January 2, 2025
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New Defending Globalization Content: Globalization and Women and Economists’ Changing Views on Trade and Development
Earlier this week, we published two new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: “Globalization Helps Women Thrive,” by Christine McDaniel, explains that trade and foreign investment have boosted economic opportunity, living standards, and equality for women around the world …
By Scott Lincicome
November 26, 2024
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New Defending Globalization Essay Just in Time for Thanksgiving: “Globalization Helps Feed the World”
Thinner Defending Globalization image In anticipation of the Thanksgiving holiday this week, the Cato Institute published a new essay from Philip G. Hoxie entitled “Globalization Helps Feed the World.” Part of Cato’s ongoing Defending Globalization project, the essay documents …
By Clark Packard
November 14, 2024
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Defending Globalization Now Available in Paperback and Ebook
… Palmer, and others, Defending Globalization—part of Cato’s larger project of the same name—offers an unapologetic defense of globalization’s tremendous (and often overlooked) benefits. Below are a few excerpted reviews of Defending Globalization: “Defending Globalization is one …
By Clark Packard
November 12, 2024
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New Cato Docuseries on the Faces of Globalization
… s stories and to show how globalization has lifted more than a billion humans out of abject poverty since 2000. Globalization for Fun and Profit: The Digital Gaming Economy. Digital trade is globalization’s hottest area today, and gaming is …
By Scott Lincicome
October 3, 2024
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New Defending Globalization Content: The Trade Balance, Globalization of Popular Music, and Globalized Film and TV
Today we’ve published three new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: “The Trade Balance and Winning at Trade,” by Andreas Freytag and Phil Levy, explains that the trade balance is a particularly bad measure of national well-being …
By Scott Lincicome
August 27, 2024
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New Defending Globalization Content: US Trade Agreements and International Financial Centers
Today we’ve published two new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: How Trade Agreements Have Enhanced the Freedom and Prosperity of Americans by Daniel Griswold and Clark Packard shows that trade agreements have opened markets for hundreds of …
By Scott Lincicome
July 9, 2024
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New Defending Globalization Content: A Case Against World Government and the First Age of Globalization
… essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: A Cosmopolitan Case against World Government, by Ilya Somin explains why support for globalization and opposition to global government are not contradictory positions. Without Protectionism and Wars, Could the First Age of Globalization …
By Scott Lincicome
May 30, 2024
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New Defending Globalization Content: The Conservative and Progressive Cases for Globalization
Today we’ve published two new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: “The Conservative Case for Globalization” by Jeb Hensarling explains that free trade has historical, intellectual, economic, geopolitical, and moral justifications that conservatives have long embraced—and still …
By Scott Lincicome
May 14, 2024
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New Defending Globalization Content: Resource Abundance and Gaming
Today we’ve published two new essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project: The More Resources We Consume, the More We Have by Marian L. Tupy, explains that globalization supercharges the process of knowledge creation and knowledge dissemination, thereby leading …
By Scott Lincicome
April 24, 2024
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A Different Perspective on “Climate Change and Globalization”
Dr. Kenny’s article breaks with libertarian principles (and textbook insights from Pigouvian economics) by endorsing the goal of “net zero” CO2 emissions and embracing a set of global interventionist policies to achieve it.
By Travis Fisher and Alex Nowrasteh
April 16, 2024
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New Defending Globalization Content: Tariffs, Climate Change, and the Moral Case for Globalization
Today we’ve published three essays for Cato’s Defending Globalization project on tariffs, climate change, and the moral case for globalization.
By Scott Lincicome
April 2, 2024
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Stossel TV Debunks Six Myths About Globalization
I recently sat down with John Stossel to discuss popular myths about globalization, as well as the Cato Institute’s Defending Globalization project.
By Scott Lincicome

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Poll: 63% of Americans Want to Increase Trade with Other Nations, 75% Worry Tariffs Are Raising Consumer Prices

We Have a Bad Globalization Narrative, Not Bad Economics

‘De-Globalization’ Still Isn’t Happening (At Least Not Yet)

New Defending Globalization Content: Globalization and Women and Economists’ Changing Views on Trade and Development

New Defending Globalization Essay Just in Time for Thanksgiving: “Globalization Helps Feed the World”

Defending Globalization Now Available in Paperback and Ebook

New Cato Docuseries on the Faces of Globalization

New Defending Globalization Content: The Trade Balance, Globalization of Popular Music, and Globalized Film and TV

New Defending Globalization Content: US Trade Agreements and International Financial Centers

New Defending Globalization Content: A Case Against World Government and the First Age of Globalization

New Defending Globalization Content: The Conservative and Progressive Cases for Globalization

New Defending Globalization Content: Resource Abundance and Gaming

A Different Perspective on “Climate Change and Globalization”

New Defending Globalization Content: Tariffs, Climate Change, and the Moral Case for Globalization

Stossel TV Debunks Six Myths About Globalization