China
April 21, 2021
Menaldo & Wittstock’s new working paper
Victor Menaldo and Nicolas Wittstock wrote and posted a new working paper: Bidenism as Trumpism 2.0: America’s Bipartisan Embrace of Neo-Mercantilist Policies and What this Entails A hefty dose of nationalism infuses Build Back Better, U.S. President Joe Biden’s economic policy priorities. Echoing Trump’s Make America Great Again promises, it embraces a zero-sum logic regarding…
March 12, 2021
Say it Ain’t So, Joe: Please Don’t Mess with the U.S. and China’s Shared Prosperity
By Victor Menaldo and Nicolas Wittstock On February 24th, Joe Biden signed an executive order to review U.S. supply chains. The review seeks to establish if the U.S. relies too heavily on foreign suppliers in four key industries: computer chips, large-capacity batteries, pharmaceuticals, and rare earth minerals used in electronics. The problems it seeks to address are growing…
October 6, 2020
Air Quality Monitoring in China – by Zhaowen Guo
INTRODUCTION Why do citizens voice complaints about the provision of public goods in authoritarian regimes where it’s risky to do so? Using the quasi-natural experiment of China’s real-time air quality monitoring and disclosure program, I find that information about pollution can increase civic engagement. This complements some recent studies that find that said type…
August 25, 2020
New PE Forum Podcast Episode – Is Cancel Culture Threatening Free Speech?
8/21/2020 – Susan Whiting, Jamie Mayerfeld, Brian Leung, Mark Smith, Victor Menaldo and James Long on Is Cancel Culture Threatening Free Speech? https://soundcloud.com/political-economy-forum-at-university-of-washington/uw-pe-forum-podcast-3-is-cancel-culture-threatening-free-speech “If we don’t try to solve the fundamental problem behind the speech that we dislike and work only to mitigate the symptom — by censoring it — we drive the problem somewhere…
August 6, 2020
A Tale of TikTok and Tariffs – US Technology Policy towards China – By Victor Menaldo and Nicolas Wittstock
As China has become a more assertive international actor, US calls for active industrial policy to counter growing Chinese technological capabilities have grown. Allegedly, China’s technology companies are undermining US companies and hurt the US economy. Often “forced technology transfer” is invoked to justify the recent escalation in anti-Chinese technology policy. Yet, we argue…
