There is compelling evidence that globalization shocks, often working through culture and
identity, have played an important role in driving up support for populist movements …

Social scientists have sketched four distinct theories to explain a phenomenon that appears
to have ramped up in recent years, the diffusion of policies across countries. Constructivists …

In The Great Escape, published in 2013, one of us told a positive story about human
progress over the last two hundred and fifty years. The story there was one of previously …

This book started from our discussions of a paradox. Yet despite its importance it has been
curiously little discussed in the academic literature. On the one hand, the last century of …

This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what
many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a …

Populism may seem like it has come out of nowhere, but it has been on the rise for a while. I
argue that economic history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for …

We investigate the impact of globalization on electoral outcomes in 15 Western European
countries over 1988–2007. We employ both official election results at the district level and …

We show that support for the Leave option in the Brexit referendum was systematically
higher in regions hit harder by economic globalization. We focus on the shock of surging …

Are economists responsible for Donald Trump's shocking victory in the US presidential
election? Economists might only wish they have the kind of power it takes to determine …

We inhabit a perpetually accelerating and increasingly interconnected world, with new
ideas, fads, and fashions moving at social-media speed. New policy ideas, especially “ideas …