2021 Lionel Gelber Prize awarded to Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis for Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

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• Trade Wars Are Class Wars chosen as this year's top non-fiction book on international affairs
• Lionel Gelber Prize is awarded annually by an international jury, in partnership with University of Toronto's Munk School & Foreign Policy Magazine
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TORONTO and WASHINGTON, April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - An international jury led by Janice Gross Stein announced today that the winner of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize is Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis, published by Yale University Press.

The winning book traces the origins of today's trade wars to decisions made by politicians and business leaders in China, Europe, and the United States over the past thirty years. 

"Trade Wars Are Class Wars is an absolutely riveting analysis of the distortions in the global economy and what they mean for all of us," said Janice Gross Stein, jury chair. "It is such a counterintuitive interpretation of trade and of...