Thomas I. Palley

The administration’s policies toward refugees are bad enough, but people from the diaspora take an equally hard hit.
Our legal system has failed to protect young girls’ right to self defense.
Outlines a policy agenda to effectively address the challenge posed by global outsourcing and calls for creative institutional arrangements to shape the nature of competition.
New thinking for a trade and development agenda.
Public understandings of the economy also matter.
The failure of the Cancun WTO ministerial may eventually come to be viewed as marking the end of the current global trade agenda.
A second contribution of labor standards is promotion of good governance and reduction of corruption.