POLICIES TO ACCELERATE
GLOBALIZATION
[“ . . . both candidates [Senator Bernie
Sanders and Donald Trump]
are acknowledging something important: what has happened to U.S. labor
was not a natural disaster but, in part, the product of government policies
designed to accelerate globalization and expose American workers to foreign
competition. That admission is more than working-class Americans I
have got from most Presidential candidates.”
are acknowledging something important: what has happened to U.S. labor
was not a natural disaster but, in part, the product of government policies
designed to accelerate globalization and expose American workers to foreign
competition. That admission is more than working-class Americans I
have got from most Presidential candidates.”
James Surowiecki, “Economic Populism at the Primaries,” New
Yorker, February 28, 2016, page 21.
