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Jeffry Frieden: How Politics and Economics Interact
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English - April 11, 2024 16:05 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MB - ★★★★ - 48 ratingsBusiness News Business News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Even optimal economic policies create winners and losers, and that’s where politics steps in. Trade liberalization is an example of a policy that can make a country better off as a whole, but what happens to workers who lose out to cheaper goods? Jeffry Frieden says while politics is often messy, it’s how society puts a value on things economists can’t measure.
Frieden is a Professor of Government at Harvard University.
Transcript: https://bit.ly/4cU34qZ
Read A Place for Politics at IMF.org/fandd