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Trade War Looms as China Objects to European Union Carbon Fees

April 4th, 2012

China’s opposition to European Union rules that will require commercial jets flying European routes to pay carbon emission fees is (in the diplomatic language reserved for such matters) unfortunate. Expressing its opposition by threatening to boycott Airbus, the giant European aircraft manufacturer, is much worse—an early sign of the almost inevitable …

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Starve Thy Neighbor

September 3rd, 2010

Nice post by Harvard’s Jeff Frankel on the little-followed but surprisingly important issue of export control on food crops. The United States hasn’t tried to contain food prices by embargoing exports since Richard Nixon briefly stopped foreign sales of soybeans and set in motion the rise …

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Sweet Deal

March 22nd, 2010

The Competitive Enterprise Institute goes off the rails occasionally (as in “what climate change?”…), but the organization is right on the mark on the issue of import quotas for sugar. American cane and sugar beet growers, it seems, have lost a bit of their …

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For an assistant professor (American University’s School of International Service) three years out of graduate school (Princeton), Jeff Colgan is making quite a splash. As a scholar working at the nexus between economics and political science, he’s specialized in analyzing the links between petroleum and international conflict. His new book, Petro-Aggression, explores the question of why some oil-fueled regimes stir the geopolitical pot (think Iran, Venezuela) while others are quite conservative (Saudi Arabia). But we’re most taken with his working paper on OPEC, in which he argues that the cartel (as opposed to individual cartel members) is toothless.

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Trade War Looms as China Objects to European Union Carbon Fees

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