Harvard Kennedy School’s adjunct lecturer in public policy and East Asia political expert, Jeeyang Rhee Baum, examines South ...

When presented with a clear threat to democratic norms and institutions by the President’s declaration of martial law, many ...

When service sector employment fell by 15% during the early days of the pandemic, many hourly service workers faced increasing economic precarity and negative consequences for their health and ...

September 6, 2020, Paper: "Global value chains (GVCs) are the practical expressions and principal engines of today’s globalization. There is a burgeoning body of literature that takes a GVC ...

The only realist choice in this year’s election is to reject Trump.

2020, Paper: "In this study, we analyze the impacts of minimum wages on firms’ robot adoption using novel panel data related to robots imported by firms in China from 2001 to 2012, a period when most ...

This book will help you think more analytically. Doing so will enable you to better understand the world around you, to make smarter decisions, and to ultimately live a more fulfilling life. It draws ...

May/June 2021, Opinion: "For decades, the promise of globalization has rested on a vision of a world in which goods, services, and capital would flow across borders as never before; whatever its other ...

March 5, 2021, Opinion: "The labor market improved in February 2021 as employers added 379,000 jobs, leaving the economy at 11.9 million jobs below its pre-pandemic trend. At the same time the ...

December 6, 2020, Opinion: "In the evolution of the U.S. economy over the past four decades, one fact stands out as especially puzzling: the large and fairly steady decline in interest rates. Consider ...

July 30, 2020, Paper, "While there is a vast body of research on the benefits of FDI in developing countries, whether and how the form of FDI matters have received limited attention. In this paper, we ...

September 27, 2021, Paper: "Supply chain disruptions, which have become commonplace, are often associated with glob alization and trade. Little is known about optimal policy in the face of insecure ...