Gordon H. Hanson

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The U.S. Place-Based Policy Supply Chain

2 months ago | nber.org | Gordon H. Hanson |Dani Rodrik |Rohan Sandhu

We thank Cecile Gaubert, Jacob Greenspon, Rebecca Lester, and David Neumark for helpful comments; Rafael Carbonell, Ryan Donahue, Amy Halloway, Matt Hurlbutt, Birgit Klohs, Greg LeRoy, and Rod Miller for illuminating discussions; and Ben Balint-Kurti, Jessie Dickens, Paul Garbarino, Harry Huy Do, Mary Hancock, Frank Keat, Gabriel Kelvin, Emily Marsh, and Seokmin Oh for outstanding research assistance.
Places versus People: The Ins and Outs of Labor Market Adjustment to Globalization

2 months ago | nber.org | David Autor |David Dorn |Gordon H. Hanson |Maggie Jones

We thank Rodrigo Adão, Lorenzo Caliendo, Christian Dustmann, Brian Kovak, Simon Galle, Thomas Lemieux, Fernando Parro, Andrés Rodríguez-Clare, Anna Salomons, Jonathan Vogel and participants of the Handbook of Labor Economics conference in Berlin for valuable comments, and Juliana Quattrocchi for exceptional research assistance. Autor acknowledges research support from the Hewlett Foundation, Google, the NOMIS Foundation, Schmidt Sciences, and the Smith Richardson Foundation.
The U.S. and China: Trade and Trade Wars

Jun 9, 2024 | econofact.org | Gordon H. Hanson

China’s share of manufacturing exports rose from just over 1% of the world’s total in 1990, to almost one-fifth today. Research by Gordon Hanson and his co-authors documented how the ‘China Shock’ led to factory closures and job losses in places that had been producing apparel, shoes, furniture, simple electronics, and other goods that China now exported. Tariffs on Chinese goods in 2018 and 2019 did not reverse these effects and lead to job recovery.
Opinion Today: Topline

Jan 29, 2024 | opiniontoday.substack.com | Thomas Silver |Gordon H. Hanson

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedMajorities view local, state, and federal taxes as too high and delivering too little value for people like themAP-NORC Center for Public Affairs ResearchThe public tends to have similar opinions of sales, property, and income taxes, and attitudes toward these taxes are closely tied to political partisanship, according to new UChicago Harris/AP-NORC Poll.
El nuevo consenso comercial de Washington

Dec 23, 2023 | nuevospapeles.com | Gordon H. Hanson

Y en qué se equivocaTraducción Alejandro GarvieSi la era de la hiperglobalización comenzó en 1995, con la creación de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC), su agonía comenzó a principios de 2018, cuando el presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, aumentó los aranceles a las importaciones estadounidenses de paneles solares y lavadoras chinas. A esos gravámenes les siguieron aumentos recíprocos de los derechos de importación entre los dos países.
How Commerce Can Save the Climate

Mar 7, 2023 | almendron.com | Gordon H. Hanson |Matthew J. Slaughter

Crisis looms for the planet. In November 2022, world leaders met in Egypt at the UN’s annual forum on climate change, known as the Conference of the Parties. Much like the previous 26 rounds of negotiations, COP27 did little to solve the world’s environmental emergency. The summit marked another failure to secure meaningful commitments. It is now virtually certain that countries will fail to reach the long-standing goal of limiting average planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
How Commerce Can Save the Climate

Feb 28, 2023 | foreignaffairs.com | Gordon H. Hanson |Matthew J. Slaughter |Thomas Graham |James M. Lindsay

Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Get a link Page url Request Reprint Permissions Crisis looms for the planet. In November 2022, world leaders met in Egypt at the UN’s annual forum on climate change, known as the Conference of the Parties. Much like the previous 26 rounds of negotiations, COP27 did little to solve the world’s environmental emergency.
Avoiding job loss in the transition to renewable energy

Feb 1, 2023 | bostonglobe.com | Gordon H. Hanson

Shifting to green energy is necessary for the planet, but the change will create economic winners and losers. As a hub for green tech innovation with relatively little exposure to fossil fuel-intensive industries, Massachusetts is likely to benefit. But the green energy transition nationwide represents a direct threat to the nearly 2 million workers and their communities that rely on oil, gas, and coal for their livelihoods.