Economic policy that adheres to the tenets of orthodoxy while failing to deliver for large sections of society is doomed to fail.

Policy and business elites did not speak frankly about the unequal distribution of benefits from trade and failed to adequately accompany market-opening with good domestic policies to equip displaced workers to upskill, adjust, and share in the new opportunities being created.

Some of the anti-trade sentiment is the result of rising wealth inequality and stagnating real wages.

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