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Toward A New Economic Constitution: Judicial Disciplines On Trade Politics, Sungjoon Cho
Toward A New Economic Constitution: Judicial Disciplines On Trade Politics, Sungjoon Cho
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This article first observes that protectionism is an icon of trade politics and thus likely to gather fresh momentum as a domestic election approaches. The paper then problematizes protectionism beyond mere seasonal election politics by revealing its fatal pathologies both to the United States and to the rest of the world. Protectionism basically caters to the special interest at the expense of the larger public interest, which may be coined as a Madisonian constitutional failure. It also deviates from global trading norms, which the United States hypocritically continues to preach adherence to for the rest of the world. This double …
Cultural Communities In A Global Labor Market: Immigration Restrictions As Residential Segregation, Howard F. Chang
Cultural Communities In A Global Labor Market: Immigration Restrictions As Residential Segregation, Howard F. Chang
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Economists recognize that nations can gain from trade through not only the free movement of goods across national boundaries but also the free movement of services, capital, and labor across national boundaries. Despite the presumption that economic theory raises in favor of international labor mobility, the nations of the world maintain restrictions on immigration and show little inclination to liberalize these barriers significantly. Michael Walzer defends immigration restrictions as policies necessary to maintain distinct cultural communities and rejects the alternative of voluntary residential segregation at the local level. I argue that we should instead prefer voluntary segregation at the local …