[Jason Gayle, Lydia Mulvany and Monte Reel | December 15, 2016 |Bloomberg] From the air, the Pearl River Delta in southern China’s Guangdong province resembles a mass of human cells under a microscope. Hundreds of thousands of tiny rectangular blocks, all of them shades of green, are clustered between cities and waterways. Livestock pens are…

[JARED BERNSTEIN AND DEAN BAKER| December 8, 2016 |The Atlantic] However one feels about Donald Trump, it’s fair to say he has usefully elevated a long-simmering issue in American political economy: the hardship faced by the families and communities who have lost out as jobs have shifted overseas. For decades, many politicians from both parties ignored the…