Megan McArdle, Columnist

Don't Blame Americans for Blaming China

Free trade hasn't worked out as planned.

January 27, 2016 at 10:40 PM UTC

By Megan McArdle

Megan McArdle is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist.

Your job went to China and all you got was an iPhone. — Your job went to China and all you got was an iPhone.
Photographer: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images

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Was opening our markets to trade with China a good idea?

My colleague Noah Smith argues “maybe not,” citing a new paper from David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson.