After decades of proudly poclaiming the era of globalisation, today we see trade wars instead of free trade, and misery instead of prosperity. In this talk, Niklas Albin Svensson discusses the reasons behind the collapse of free trade, what it would mean for the world economy and what attitude we should take towards it.
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