Tyler Cowen, Columnist

Globalization Goes National

Trade deals are stalled, but barriers are falling inside nations. Economically, it's much the same thing.

September 15, 2016 at 1:00 PM UTC

Tyler Cowen is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of economics at George Mason University and host of the Marginal Revolution blog.

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Trade agreements are stalled or collapsing. Brexit won. World trade volume is slowing down. Has globalization hit a wall?

Not exactly. Globalization isn’t so much slowing as it is taking new forms. The most potent form of globalization today is occurring inside nations, notably China and India.