Recent political developments in several advanced economies, including the UK and the USA, have put under threat international trade and finance flows. Is this a sustained attack?
Adam Posen is President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC and a former external board member of the Bank of England.
Simeon Djankov is Executive Director of the Financial Markets Group at LSE.
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