“Let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible, and, above all, let finance be primarily national” – this advice from Keynes remains just as relevant today as it was in the 1930s.
Bello’s political memoir gives us all a challenge: to simultaneously be philosophers interpreting the world and organizers fighting to change it.
Reports of the death of nationalism are greatly exaggerated.
South Korea has been a big winner in the game of globalization. But it has come at a price.
We’d better control machines before they control us.
Seoul and Washington should be working together to bring China on board for the kind of economic transformation that the planet so desperately needs.
Trust is the fuel that makes global institutions run. And it looks as though we’ve passed Peak Trust.
The coronavirus has exposed the failures of the global economic system. Here’s a post-pandemic alternative.
Trump’s economic war on China comes in the shadow of an even deadlier military escalation. And it may not stop after November, no matter who wins the election.
Deadly, disruptive, and economically devastating as COVID-19 has proved to be, in retrospect it may turn out to have had at least this one silver lining.