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Matthew C. Klein, Michael Pettis: Trade Wars Are Class Wars (2020, Yale University Press)

Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as …

wonky but clear enough

Clearly titled, global financial crises and gluts are not primarily due to rational investor pursuit of productive capacity but excesses of central bank liquidity, capital mobility, and savings by elites (that is, depressing wages and consumption domestically), and trade imbalances are pulled by foreign demand for investment/assets inexorably. Convincing data and histories, though the writing often jumps to details before giving the point.