Greg Rosalsky
Greg Rosalsky is the Planet Money host and interviewer in Why economists got free trade with China so wrong. The episode frames his conversation with David Autor as an expansion of a newsletter interview about why economists underestimated the cost of free trade with China.
Rosalsky’s role is to translate a technical labor-economics debate into a public-economics question: if free trade raised total output, why were some workers and towns left with durable damage? That makes the episode a bridge between Economic Way Of Thinking, China Shock, and current tariff politics.
Indicators of 2025 and What to Watch in 2026 adds Rosalsky as the participant pitching tariffs as the 2025 indicator. The source uses his segment to move tariff coverage from the China-shock repair debate into Effective Tariff Rate Shock, where consumer tariff rates, market turmoil, Costco litigation, and Supreme Court review make tariffs a current macro and legal-authority issue.
Connections
- Planet Money and NPR - show and network context.
- David Autor - interview subject.
- China Shock and Free Trade Distributional Cost - core topics of the episode.
- Blanket Tariff Limit and Strategic Industrial Policy - later policy questions raised in the interview.
- Effective Tariff Rate Shock, Donald Trump, Costco, and Supreme Court - year-end tariff indicator branch added by the crossover source.