# Working Papers ## expand\_more (with David A. Lake), "[The New Political Economy of U.S. Trade]()" (with Richard Grossman and Daniel Lowery) "[Was Freedom Road a Dead End? Political and socio-economic effects of Reconstruction in the American South](http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/jaf81/files/2025/10/Freedom-Road-Dead-End-3.0-w-Appendix.pdf)[,](https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/jaf81/files/2025/09/Freedom-Road-Dead-End-3.0.pdf)" October 2025 "[Was Freedom Road a Dead End? Political and Socio-economic Effects of Reconstruction](/file_url/379)" presentation based on an earlier draft of the paper [The costs of coercion](http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/jaf81/files/2025/11/The-costs-of-coercion-1.0.pdf) Prepared for presentation at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's 69th economic conference, "The US Economy in a Changing Global Landscape," November 21-22, 2025 [The end of an era](http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/jaf81/files/2025/06/The-end-of-an-era.pdf) "[The political economy of policies for structural change: A cautionary note](/file_url/387)" Based on remarks at Peterson Institute for International Economics/International Monetary Fund conference on "Rethinking Policies to Steer Structural Change," April 2024 "[The political economy of international monetary arrangements](/file_url/376)" Prepared for presentation at a conference on “Floating Exchange Rates at Fifty” at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, March 2023 (with Chase Foster) ["Compensation, Austerity, and Populism: Labor Market Spending and Voting in 17 Western European Countries"]() "[Attitudes, interests, and the politics of trade](/file_url/358)" forthcoming in *Political Science Quarterly* (with Arthur Silve) "[The political reception of innovations](/file_url/345)" forthcoming in *Economics and Politics* ["Global trade in the Age of Populism](/file_url/369)," Written for a special issue of the journal *Perspectivas – Journal of Political Science* on “New Globalization Challenges and EU Trade Policy,” edited by Annette Bongardt and Francisco Torres (with David A. Lake, Michael Nicholson, and Aditya Ranganath), “[Economic Crisis and Political Change in the United States, 1900 to the Present](/file_url/315)”