Sanctions
04 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, defence economics, international economic law, international economics, International law, war and peace Tags: sanctions, trade wars
Trump Is Terrible on Trade. Top 2020 Dems Are No Better.
07 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, industrial organisation, international economic law, international economics, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: 2020 presidential election, protectionism, tariffs and quotas, trade wars
Jobs exposed to Chinese tariffs are more than twice as likely to fall in counties that voted Trump in 2016
26 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, international economic law, International law, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: trade wars
Good to see strategic trade theory has been driven from the temple
30 May 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, international economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: protectionism, strategic trade theory, tariffs, trade wars
@realdonaldtrump is wrong in tariffs
26 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economic history, international economics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, China, tariffs, trade wars
The Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip is the real target of Hamas
31 Jul 2014 Leave a comment
in war and peace Tags: blockad of Gaza Strip, Egypt, Gaza Strip. Hamas, proxy wars, siege of Gaza Strip, trade wars
David Brooks argues that Egypt is the real target of the Hamas missiles. After the recent military coup in Egypt, the military leaders closed roughly 95% of the tunnels that connected Egypt to Gaza. In 2013-2014, Egypt’s military has destroyed most of the 1,200 tunnels which were used to smuggle food, weapons and other goods into Gaza, including flooding them with sewage.
Hamas derived 40% of its tax revenue from tariffs on goods that flow through those tunnels. One estimate puts the economic losses at nearly a fifth of the Gazan GDP.
Hamas couldn’t strike at Egypt to end the blockade so it attacked Israel in a proxy war. If Hamas could emerge as the heroic fighter, if Arab TV screens were filled with dead Palestinian civilians, then public outrage might force Egypt to lift the blockade.
When Mousa Abu Marzook, the deputy chief of the Hamas political bureau, dismissed a plea for a cease-fire, he asked
What are 200 martyrs compared with lifting the siege?
Hamas is firing rockets at Tel Aviv and sending terrorists through tunnels into Israel while aiming at Cairo.
The Gaza Strip has two borders: both Egypt and Israel restrict trade with the Gaza. The Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip is biting much more than the Israeli blockade.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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