Choosing Openness: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Why global engagement is best for Australia

Andrew Leigh

Across the developed world, global engagement has become a major political fault line. Populists say that we should hunker down in the face of difference, that trade is a zero-sum game, and that foreign investment will cost us in the long run. They say openness is the cause of the growing income gap. Th...