Revisiting the China Shock (with Joseph Francis)

Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty. I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Go to econal.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode, and find links and other information related to today's conversation. You'll also find our archives with every episode we've done going back to 2006. Our email address is mail at econalk.org. We'd love to hear from you. Today is October thirteenth, twenty twenty six, and my guest is economic historian. Joseph Francis, he is an honorary research fellow in the department of economics at the University of Birmingham.

Our conversation is going to discuss his recent article in the September Twenty twenty six Econ journal watch. The title of that piece was Whimsy and Fragility and

In the China shock. Narrative. In short, we're going to be talking about a very, very famous paper uh in an influential paper on the impact of Chinese manufacturing on

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