Webinar: How much is trade policy driven by economic or magical thinking?

Date: June 25, 2026
Time: 12 to 1:30 p.m. ET

Zoom registration required:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/sumy5J-vTz-MwwTymXIAsg

Join Gavin Fridell and Patrick Clark, authors of the new book, Trade Fetishism: Magical and Materialist Thinking in Global Political Economy, and guest commentators Carlo Dade and Laura Macdonald as they discuss trade policy, trade activism, and the role of fantasy and desire in an increasingly unstable and uneven trading world.

Moderated by Stuart Trew, senior researcher at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and director the Trade and Investment Research Project (TIRP).

Authors

Gavin Fridell, University Research Professor of Political Science and Global Development Studies, Saint Mary’s University

Patrick Clark, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science and Global Development Studies, St. Mary’s University and Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher with CERLAC.

Discussants

Carlo Dade, Director of International Policy and the New North America Initiative at the School of Public Policy, University of Calgary

Laura Macdonald, Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Political Science and Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University

Register for the book talk here.