Editor's note

The rise in nationalism. Brexit and Trump. Reactionary far-right parties wooing millions of around the world. The facts on the ground are clear: globalisation – and the international economic and political system that has underpinned it for the past half-century – is fracturing.

Our series on Globalisation Under Pressure will both analyse the old international order and surface local stories of finance, migration, jobs, education and culture that show the far-reaching impacts of the change the world is experiencing.

Today, Robert Zeidan explains how two economists anticipated the unequal impact of free trade within countries and what to do about it.

Reema Rattan

Global Commissioning Editor

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Is the sun setting on globalisation? Aly Song/Reuters

Two Swedish economists foresaw the backlash against globalisation – here's how to mitigate it

Rodrigo Zeidan, NYU Shanghai

A fundamental insight into the distributive effects of free trade from almost 90 years ago.

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