Maxwell School News and Commentary

"Even though in aggregate, trade leads to economic gains, it almost always creates winners and losers," writes Devashish Mitra, professor of economics and Gerald B. and Daphna Cramer Professor of Global Affairs." He adds that social protection policies "need to be in place for equity reasons as well as to build and sustain support for free trade."

"Unbeaten: Rocky Marciano’s Fight for Perfection in a Crooked World," by Mike Stanton ’79 BA (PSc), has been named one of the best books of 2018 by the Boston Globe and Library Journal, and as a 2018 Reader’s Favorite by the Wall Street Journal. Stanton’s first book, the New York Times bestseller "The Prince of Providence," will be adapted for the stage by Trinity Repertory Company in Providence.

Michael Wasylenko, Maxwell Advisory Board Professor of Economics, says "highly skilled, highly educated workers find the best job matches in East and West coast cities," which are typically located in high tax states.

"It’s a discussion between some of the Democrats who may have a better sense of strategic thinking about the election and the ones who think there are good reasons to be going forward with impeachment, [for whom] it’s the principle of the thing," says Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute.

"It [undocumented immigration] was invented by legislators who wanted to close the border. And the vast, costly deportation apparatus that has been built as a result has created new problems, too,"  writes Elizabeth Cohen, associate professor of political science.

Democratic tax proposals are simply a "stealth attack" on the preferential rate for capital gains, says Christopher Faricy, associate professor of political science.