Journal of Economic Literature
Book Reviews
2026-09-01
Alan V. Deardorff of University of Michigan reviews “Blue-Collar Blues: Is Trade to Blame for Rising US Income Inequality?” by Robert Z. Lawrence,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Explores the links between slow U.S. real wage growth, increased earnings inequality, and trade. Discusses the wage-productivity gap, 1981-2006; wage inequality and trade; class inequality and trade; globalization, stock options, and the super rich; and job dislocation--past and future. Lawrence is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute and Albert L. Williams Professor of Trade and Investment in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Index.”