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A Place for Politics
*MARCH 2024 ISSUE*
*By Jeffry Frieden*
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Dear Colleague,
Even as the United States took its place as the world’s preeminent economic power after World War II, manufacturing firms fled towns in the Northeast and Midwest, leaving behind rusting steel mills and scarred communities. Society as a whole became richer as new industries sprang up elsewhere, but many rust belt communities are still dealing with the consequences of deindustrialization.
Writing in F&D magazine [ https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/03/A-Place-for-Politics-Jeffry-Frieden?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery ], Harvard professor *Jeffry Frieden* says the US postwar economic transformation is one example of how policies and trends that increase aggregate social welfare can have painful distributional effects: they beget winners and losers. Democratic politics, Frieden says, is the mechanism by which societies make difficult choices among things that are often hard to compare.
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