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	Podcast:		IMF Podcasts
	Episode:		Jeffry Frieden: How Politics and Economics Interact
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:23:38
	Publish Date:		2024-04-11 16:05:46
	Description:		Even optimal economic policies create winners and losers, and that’s where politics steps in. Trade liberalization is an example of a policy that can make a country better off as a whole, but what happens to workers who lose out to cheaper goods? Jeffry Frieden says while politics is often messy, it’s how society puts a value on things economists can’t measure. Frieden is a Professor of Government at Harvard University. Transcript: https://bit.ly/4cU34qZ Read A Place for Politics at IMF.org/fandd
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