Following through on campaign promises to forcibly evict several million illegal immigrants, Trump has set in motion a plan to deport those with criminal records. But doing so won’t come cheap.
Trump’s ‘America first’ rhetoric implies that the internationalism and ‘enlightened self-interest’ that built the postwar order was a big mistake. The evidence and basic economics disagree.
States have been using tax breaks and other incentives like the kind Trump dangled before Carrier for years. There’s little evidence they work, and in fact they may lead to widening inequality.
America’s coal heartland is delighted with Donald Trump’s election win. But like King Canute, he can’t turn back the tide of the global market push away from coal and towards renewables.
Many US voters appear to believe that deporting illegal immigrants would boost job opportunities and wages for US workers. But economic modelling suggests different conclusions.
Four of our economic scholars weigh in on Trump’s legislative agenda, healing the divide, uncertainty and something known as the ‘presidential puzzle.’
Leading Australian academics respond to Donald Trump’s victory, and look ahead to what kind of president he might be. Much unknown about Trump’s foreign policy, but expect instability Gorana Grgic, lecturer…
Looking back over past US elections you can see how the terms of the economic debate have varied – as the solutions to past crises have set the groundwork for renewed instability.