Alan Beattie on the Doha Round Problem
Disciplinary boundaries matter, unfortunately. When an economist tries to sound insightful, the “insight” sounds banal to political scientists:
What do we learn from this? It’s not the global mechanisms that are wonky. It’s the weakness of the national governments pulling the levers. This would be as true of a plurilateral trade deal as of a multilateral, of course. There is no technocratic solution to the Doha round. It’s a political problem.
