Henry Farrell

Canada Needs to Start Preparing for Trump – and Getting Other Allies Involved – with Abraham Newman

If Donald Trump wins the presidential elections in November, even Canadians could be blocked from their bank accounts. In our recent book…

Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, “Canada Needs to Start Preparing for Trump – and Getting Other Allies Involved,” Toronto Globe and Mail, March 2, 2024.

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Academic Article

Trust, Institutions and Institutional Evolution: Industrial Districts and the Social Capital Hypothesis – with Jack Knight

December 9, 2003 Politics and Society with Jack Knight
Much current work in the social sciences seeks to understand the effects of trust and social capital on economic and political outcomes. However, the sources of trust remain unclear. In this article, the authors articulate a basic theory of the relationship between institutions and trust. The authors apply this theory to industrial districts, geographically concentrated ...
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Essay

What If These Economic Weapons Fall into Trump’s Hands? – with Abraham Newman

October 11, 2023 New York Times with Abraham Newman
The Biden administration has built an unprecedented machine for economic and technological coercion. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the United States and its allies cut off Russia’s access to its own central bank reserves held outside Russia. The administration revamped export controls to strangle China’s access to the powerful and specialized semiconductors needed to train A.I., ...
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