Maybe Professor Putnam should offer to be an advisor to a 6th President.
POTUS' inability to understand the basics of using domestic opposition into international negotiating leverage is quite something.
As policy makers deal with pressure to impose tariffs to protect one sector of the economy or another - I often reflect that Professor Trebilcock's "Dealing with Losers" was woefully underappreciated.
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"underappreciated" - notwithstanding that the book won the 2014 Donner Prize for best public policy book.
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Of interest re CPTPP:
Argentina may deposit its accession request tomorrow.
www.clarin.com/economia/pab...
Curated list of podcasts about trade, negotiations, and geopolitics.
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El canciller dijo que el acuerdo representa la comercialización con el 13% del PBI mundial.