This paper analyzes a central colonial institution: the monopolization of foreign trade through exclusive trading companies. We interpret this arrangement as an economic institution that creates a ...

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Indian trade officials will seek comparative advantage over other countries during negotiations to advance a trade deal with Washington this week.

India’s digital trade strategy reflects calibrated openness. India’s trade strategy has shifted from politically driven caution to economic logic grounded in comparative advantage. From the Free Trade ...

Indian trade officials will seek comparative advantage over other countries during negotiations to advance a trade deal with Washington this week.

A comparative advantage can be something inherent, in the way a person’s height might make them better at basketball. It can also be developed and improved, the way one basketball player can become ...

Once again, the Supreme Court torpedoed my plan to write about its tariff decision by not making one, and it now appears that the column will have to wait until February. Meanwhile, tariff payments ...