Monday, September 17, 2007

National Bureau of Economic Research. 2

The second National Bureau of Economic Research article must have slipped in by mistake. There, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg and Nina Pavcnik in the article entitled "Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries." In what must be a horrendous blunder, they come to the conclusion, "the evidence has provided little support for the conventional wisdom that trade openness in developing countries would favor the less fortunate." After all, everyone knows that the purpose of expanding trade is an act of generosity, intended only to help the poor.

1 comment:

rosserjb@jmu.edu said...

michael,

Don't know if it is the same paper or a followup, but the same authors had a paper of the same title published in the March 2007 Journal of Economic Literature.