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Matthew Klein is an economics commentator at Barron\\u2019s and is the author of a new book with Michael Pettis titled, *Trade Wars are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace.* Matthew is a returning guest to Macro Musings and he joins once again to talk about his book and the domestic roots of international trade conflicts \\u2013 in the past as well as today. Specifically, David and Matthew also discuss the history of how industrialized strategies, in countries such as China, have set the stage for trade conflicts in the present day.

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Transcript for the episode can be found here.

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Matthew\\u2019s Twitter: @M_C_Klein

Matthew\\u2019s Barron\\u2019s profile: https://www.barrons.com/authors/8566

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Related Links:

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*Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace* by Matthew Klein and Michael Pettis

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300244175/trade-wars-are-class-wars

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*The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy* by Michael Pettis

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691158686/the-great-rebalancing

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*The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan* by Sebastian Mallaby

https://www.cfr.org/book/man-who-knew

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*Imperialism: A Study* by John Hobson

https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/hobson-imperialism-a-study

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*Communist China\\u2019s Capitalism: The Highest Stage of Capitalist Imperialism* by Kenneth Austin

https://www.worldeconomics.com/Journal/ViewArticle.aspx?AID=455

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David\\u2019s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com
David\\u2019s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth