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16 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“With services, either you need direct investment or it can be transmitted over the internet. So there, distance doesn’t matter quite as much.”
02 / uncertainty
“Whether they’ve gone too far, I don’t know, and whether it’s taxing of their infrastructure.”
03 / belief
“We’ve seen the basically one-party state dissolve into a competitive democracy. So I think NAFTA and the greater openness that it’s brought about have been very good for Mexico.”
04 / belief
“I think that we could be moving in a direction where there will be more trade conflict, even set aside Trump and all that sort of thing.”
05 / uncertainty
“I don’t know about pessimistic, but certainly they’re going to have to choose a different path.”
06 / belief
“The weight of the evidence, in my view, is that Britain would lose some of its market access to Western Europe.”
07 / evaluation
“Once again, the 1990s was special because we had the collapse of communism, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and so a lot of regime change that led to some of these things.”
08 / evaluation
“Part of the problem with the WTO, at least in terms of negotiations, has been something that Canada identified, way back in the 1940s, which I think is in the book.”
09 / evaluation
“Actually, I’m surprised you’re asking me that because you’ve written about the cultural diversity that you get with openness in free trade and that if you limit the ability of domestic consumers to watch foreign movies, and taste foreign food, and import foreign art, you’re losing something as a result of that.”
10 / evaluation
“Not particularly optimistic because, unlike manufactured goods or agricultural goods or merchandise in general, each service sector has its own specific trade costs, if you will.”
11 / evaluation
“Of course he’s widely misinterpreted from saying, “We won’t see wars in the future because of increased trade.”
12 / preference
“We could stick it to the Americans like we used to in the past, instead of thinking about them as a partner because we’ve got all these other free trade agreements with the EU.”
13 / evaluation
“The reason why developing countries want it is because it’s a way of ensuring that they can commit themselves to treating foreign investors fairly.”
14 / evaluation
“The empirical work is not quite up, I think, to the standards of what economists have done in terms of the economic phenomena, but partly it’s because it’s very difficult to quantify, first of all, what constitutes peace, how you operationalize this, what constitutes a trade agreement.”
15 / evaluation
“One, he made economics very fun. I don’t know whether you’ve ever talked to him, but he’s always telling jokes.”
16 / evaluation
“The 1780s was not a good decade, partly because our trade had been so severely disrupted by being outside the British Empire.”