Sunday, March 20, 2016

POLICIES TO ACCELERATE GLOBALIZATION

[“ . . . both candidates [Senator Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump]
a
re acknowledging something important: what has happened to U.S. labor
was not a natur
al disaster but, in part, the product of government policies
designed to acc
elerate 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.