Automation has made this possible REUTERS It is women who have been hit hardest by the absence of trade
There’s a commonplace claim that capitalism and free markets are somehow anti-women. Even that capitalism requires gender discrimination in order for it to work. There have indeed been economic systems based upon that sort of discrimination, so the question becomes is this true about capitalism — not merely an insistence that that could never happen.
Recent events, this coronavirus pandemic, provides a useful natural experiment to test the proposition. As the World Trade Organization is reported as pointing out in this newspaper, […]
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