Christopher M. Meissner

Best summer books of 2025: Roula Khalaf, Stephen Bush and other FT journalists pick their favourites FT editors, columnists and specialists share the titles that have inspired them

Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers, makes the FT Best Summer Books List: ft.com/content/025b...

Just sayin...if you have beach day coming up...

The World Economy Is on the Brink of Epochal Change Capitalism’s operating system is due for a major upgrade. How that turns out depends on enormously consequential political choices.

For your weekend reading pleasure...

My first piece for The Atlantic is up. Its my take on what is going on at a macro level across the world. I hope you enjoy it, or they will not ask me to do another one: www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

And David Jacks with "Suez" #past #history #trade #technology #change #economics #econhis #shipping @chris-meissner.bsky.social

Yeah! Love it too but isn’t it a little dated?

The French Touch: Product Quality and France’s Great Trade Liberalization, 1850-1874 Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Just released. New WP on product quality and trade liberalization in France, 1850-1874. The economy was producing high quality items throughout, but liberalization decreased avg. quality but some main exports went up in quality.
www.nber.org/papers/w33902

Profs & Pints Alameda: Trump, Trade Wars, and Globalization’s Future Profs and Pints Alameda presents: “Trump, Trade Wars, and Globalization’s Future,” with Christopher M. Meissner, professor of economics at the University of California Davis and author of One from the...

Looking forward to speaking later this week at Profs & Pints Alameda on "Trump, Trade Wars, and Globalization’s Future"
Thu, May 15th, 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 PM PDT
Faction Brewing, Alameda, CA
Tix here: www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof....
More info: www.profsandpints.com/sfbayarea

Now at backgroundbriefing.org | @josephestiglitz.bsky.social - Trump's MAGA Economy Driven by Greed, Stupidity and Cowardice | Barry Eichengreen - Will Trump's Weakening of the Dollar Lead to a New Global Reserve Currency? | @chris-meissner.bsky.social - Trump's Hollow Promise of Gain After the Pain

Don’t forget to join us tomorrow for this amazing panel!

What if the new bilateral tariffs are just a natural experiment designed by the CEA economists to let trade economists get more credible estimates of trade elasticities? Nice opportunity in any case.

A lot of how I used Twitter in the past was as a way of filing interesting research I came across: I used the advanced search function nearly daily to find old tweets with papers I'd shared.

It's good to see that BlueSky has similar advance search functionality! bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Looking forward to chairing this discussion and hearing the interventions from the participants and audience.

List of countries by tariff rate - Wikipedia

With tariffs of 25%, the USA will be either the country with the second highest tariff rate in the world after North Korea - or else the highest (N. Korea isn't reported in the World Bank, so who knows?) Going into autarky mode now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

9 Apr @17:00 CEST The International Macro History Online Seminar Series #IMHOS
Panel on 'Industrial Policy in History'
🗣️Giovanni Federico, Réka Juhász, @kevinhorourke.bsky.social
Chair: @chris-meissner.bsky.social
✍️ cepr.org/events/inter...
#EconSky

Book Review | Book Review: One From the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850, by Christopher M. Meissner Reviewed by Donald J. Boudreaux | The title of Christopher Meissner’s book on globalization is brilliantly appropriate: One From the Many. It’s a deliberate reference to the Latin phrase familiar to...

Thanks to Donald Boudreaux for his review of my book "One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850". www.independent.org/publications...

Tracks with the idea they want to take us back to the late 19th c.

I mean on the y-axis.

If you’re the sort of person who reviews books for the press and you want a review copy of this. Do let me know.
Oh, and if you have a podcast and want a guest in late May/early June then yes, yes I will come on your podcast.

Why did they leave theory out of this?

Uh, where’s theory on the plot?

This is fascism.

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

Whatever else happens w/tariffs, mfg productivity doesn't rise #econsky

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Academics: Jevin and I would love to see this course used broadly around the world. Would you recommend publishing some sort of journal article about the course? (We don't need the publication for our CVs, but just want to get the word out.) If so, where would you target it?

Other promotion ideas?

Trump's tariff role model : The Indicator from Planet Money President Trump speaks fondly of William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president who was a strong advocate for tariffs. He's credited with helping to protect the fledgling tinplate industry in the late 19th...

A sign of the times . . . a whole podcast devoted William McKinley, infant industries, and tinplate from the Indicator at Planet Money
www.npr.org/2025/02/05/1...

My book "One from the Many: The Global Economy since 1850" is out now on audio book. I have 3 free download codes. Reply to this post to get one. Check out: www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/on...

The end of history viewpoint so prevalent in contemporary thought is dealt another severe blow: venal corruption and systematic corruption are back. This like other 'I didn't think that could happen again' moments underscore the value of economic history and history more generally.

70% OFF As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West The rich have always fascinated, sometimes in problematic ways. Medieval thinkers feared that the super-rich would act 'as gods among men'; much more recently Thomas Piketty made wealth cent...

I am glad to share this promotion for the audiobook version of my history of the rich 🙂👇
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Methodological paradigm shift activated.

Rule # 1 Never go to a conference without at least 4 layers of clothing with wool and polyester/heattech being at least two of these layers. This holds even in the tropics. Probably more so.