Book Launch: The New Economic Nationalism

April 16, 2025, 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT
PIIE Webcast, Washington, DC

Monica de Bolle (PIIE), Chad P. Bown (PIIE), Caroline Freund (PIIE) and Arvind Subramanian (PIIE)

Some 75 years of postwar consensus supporting liberalized international trade, economic cooperation, and free markets has shattered, replaced by a “new economic nationalism” of industrial policy, tariffs, and state support for the economy. Can this new approach deliver stability, national security, and prosperity? This new PIIE book by Monica de Bolle, Jérémie Cohen-Setton, and Madi Sarsenbayev, The New Economic Nationalism, examines case studies revealing a mixed record. In some instances, economic nationalist policies have fostered growth and declining unemployment. In much of the developing world, however, economic nationalist policies have produced corruption, debt burdens, inflation, and ultimately stagnation.

MODERATOR

Chad P. Bown
Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, PIIE

PRESENTER

Monica de Bolle 
Senior Fellow, PIIE

PANELISTS

Caroline Freund 
Nonresident Senior Fellow, PIIE, Dean of the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy

Arvind Subramanian 
Senior Fellow, PIIE