For the billions of people who still live in poverty, the path to prosperity may look very different than it has since World ...

There’s a lot going on. So we asked economists, investment researchers and other experts to help make sense of what’s next.

Free trade has been so beneficial to so many countries that the world may find a way to live without its biggest player.

The United States is abandoning the economic system that made it rich and powerful, gambling that it can become more ...

The eventual merits of global economic integration are well established, but since it has short-term winners and losers, its ...

The US economy was already weak, and the stock market was already highly vulnerable before Trump's tariffs. Read why ...

This is simply one example of the problem I pointed to before, where the gains from globalization and technological change have been highly concentrated both by region and by social group. There is no ...

Abstract: Economic globalization has transformed many manufacturing enterprises from a single-plant production mode to a multi-plant cooperative production mode. The distributed flexible job-shop ...

Tariffs now rival those of the storied Smoot-Hawley Act that prompted massive retaliations and a global trade war in the ...

Stocks were in free fall again Friday as markets saw their worst week in years. The trade war heated up as China responded to ...