Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World with Marc-William Palen (1 July, 17:30 – 20:00)

Marc-William Palen is a historian at the University of Exeter. His new book, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World (Princeton University Press), was published in April in the UK, and has been named among the year’s ‘best books’ by the New Yorker. His other publications include The ‘Conspiracy’ of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle over Empire and Economic Globalisation, 1846-1896 (Cambridge University Press, 2016). He is co-director of History & Policy’s Global Economics and History Forum in London. His work has also appeared in Le Monde, Time Magazine, the Washington Post, the Australian, and the New York Times.