The Limits of Globalization: Understanding the Rise of Donald Trump

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2016-06

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Auerback, Marshall

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The rise of Donald Trump to the top of the United States Republican Party is not as incredible as establishment pundits profess. In fact, he is the voice for an increasing number of Americans, who count themselves amongst the biggest losers of globalizaiton and free trade. Each election, the gap widens between the winners and losers of globalizaiton and free trade. And each election year, U.S. politicians express concern about their issues, then conveniently ignore them when they reach power and implement policies from the same Washington Consensus that has dominated the past 40 years. In Trump, the electorate has somebody playing a very different game, even if his policies lack the coherence and elegance so beloved in the world of economic policy seminars and think tanks.

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View archived Policy Briefs; The Policy Brief is a digital and print publication, written by JSGS scholars and leading policy experts, to provide context and perspective on important public issues and to further discussion and debate within the public sector. It provides policy makers and those interested in policy formation with timely and expert analysis, observations and potential policy approaches to relevant issues concerning the public.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10294/12241

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