Econ Journal Watch

He is an honorary research fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Birmingham.

Our conversation is going to discuss his recent article in the September 2026 Econ Journal Watch.

The title of that piece was Whimsy and Fragility in the China Shock Narrative.

In short, we're going to be talking about a very, very famous paper and an influential paper on the impact of Chinese manufacturing on employment, manufacturing, standard of living in the United States, and some of its implications.

So it's the rare person who can honor the complexity of the world, even though it's not always going to be the most personally successful approach.

Yeah.

I mean, I hope by doing this kind of study, like what I've just published in Econ Journal Watch, and I've published other ones before, I also hope to do a little bit to kind of change the incentives so that actually... my kind of economic history, which I should have also said should also be theory informed.

I think that's very important.