BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby
BEGIN:VEVENT
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:This lecture examines the colonial origins and enduring impact 
 of international economic law and institutions\, technical barriers to trad
 e (TBTs)\, and dollar hegemony as instruments of external restriction on ec
 onomic development. Drawing on Andrés Arauz’s policymaking experience at th
 e Secretaría Nacional de Planificación y Desarrollo (Senplades) and the Min
 isterio Coordinador de la Política Económica (MCPE) in Ecuador\, his doctor
 al research at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)\, and his
  reports for the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)\, the lectu
 re highlights how these mechanisms perpetuate structural dependency and lim
 it policy autonomy in the Global South.\n\nDue to the WTO and a “spaghetti 
 bowl” of free-trade agreements\, tariffs have lost importance as trade barr
 iers. They have evolved into sophisticated technical and technological barr
 iers that protect industries in former colonial powers while restricting in
 dustrialization in developing economies. Global trade rules enforce asymmet
 ries that undermine strategic industrial policies\, particularly in dollari
 zed economies. Research at UNAM on monetary sovereignty further reveals how
  dollar hegemony\, understood as a U.S. banks-centered global financial sys
 tem\, constraints fiscal and trade policies by imposing liquidity shortages
  and external vulnerabilities. Studies at CEPR on financial flows illustrat
 e how this system reinforces capital dependency\, amplifying economic shock
 s in periphery nations.\n\nThrough historical and empirical analysis\, this
  lecture traces how these colonial heirs continue to shape the global econo
 mic order. It concludes by exploring strategies for overcoming external con
 straints by effectively reclaiming policy space for development\, including
  regional monetary arrangements and explicit industrial policy.\n\n \n\nSpo
 nsored by: Munk-Darling Lecture Fund in International Relations and the Wal
 ter Krause (Econ ‘38) Economics Lecture Fund
DTEND:20250219T011500Z
DTSTAMP:20260314T093634Z
DTSTART:20250219T001500Z
GEO:45.480644;-122.627381
LOCATION:Psychology\, 105
SEQUENCE:0
SUMMARY:Tariffs? Technical Barriers to Trade and Dollar Hegemony: External 
 Restrictions for Economic Development with Andrés Arauz
UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_48871710230062
URL:https://events.reed.edu/event/dr-andres-arauz
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR