New: the Iran war's price hikes on gasoline and diesel alone have already cost American households $278 each (on avg), more than a household's average cost of a week's groceries. A total of $36 billion & rising! Check out the Tracker @climatesollab.bsky.social : iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

From our FirstView: Exiting Russia by @rwellhausen.bsky.social and BOLIANG ZHU. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - Exiting Russia - https://cup.org/4bzmbrM "...results imply that multinationals are at best unstable tools of economic statecraft, even in the midst of war..." - @rwellhausen.bsky.social#OpenAccess& BOLIANG ZHU #FirstView

New piece! Rachel Wellhausen on shifting patterns in the global waste trade, environmental consequences, and new ways of thinking about and dealing with the trade in waste of all kinds. Check it out! @rwellhausen.bsky.social

NEW - Tariffs as Environmental Protection: Evidence from the Global South after the China Garbage Shock - https://cup.org/3WVUjpS - @rwellhausen.bsky.social #OpenAccess

I’m thrilled to announce that, after ten years of research, my book on the birth of democracy in South America is finally out! I'm especially excited to be publishing it #openaccess, which means you can download a PDF for free at: www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

The UN is reporting a full internet blackout in the Gaza Strip, likely due to military activity damaging the last cable into the enclave, which has paralyzed aid operations.

I am morally outraged, first. But also: if and when this admin cares about the trade balance, this is the stupidest possible policies. We at universities export services every day. No foreign students, bye bye exports.

Hi Austin folks! Come hear us play on the steps of the Capitol this Sunday @ 7 PM. austinsymphonicband.org/events/2024/...

Happy to circulate a revised version of our paper, "Exiting Russia" - on what did (not) happen with MNCs leaving Russia in the first 18 months post-invasion. Outcomes both reinforce and challenge key theories in international political economy. www.rwellhausen.com/uploads/6/9/...

Among the inanities of today's US tariff decisions: 10% tariffs on the Marshall Islands and on "Micronesia" (Federated States of, I presume). These countries have Compacts of Free Association with the US, meaning economic support, access to US programs, freedom of movement, and no duty on imports.

I know the president is not concerned with how the balance of payments (BOP) works in the contemporary US, but it increasingly seems like no one in the administration is looking down the road to calibrate what might happen with BOP adjustment given all this?…

I Work at the F.T.C. I Know What Is Killing Local Groceries. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

As a professor at UT Austin, who grew up in the Phoenix area but went to University of Arizona undergrad, my heart is still racing after that Texas-ASU Peach Bowl.