Howard Wachtel is a professor of Economics Emeritus and former interim Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at American University. Author of four books, including The Money Mandarins and a history of Wall Street: Street of Dreams – Boulevard of Broken Hearts. Has written for among others the New York Times, The International Herald tribune, The Nation, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Der Spiegel. He was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Berlin and a Fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam.
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Globalization and Decommissioning Democracy
Discussions of the threat to liberal democracy have neglected perhaps the most surprising source that is one of the major arcs of history of the last three decades: globalization.
February 8, 2021
