Does anyone remember the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s bestseller, The Lexus and the Olive Tree? Or the better (though less famous) book by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, then journalists at the Economist, A Future Perfect? These accounts, encomiums to globalisation, were scarcely solitary in their genre.... read full story
"globalisation has made the financial elites… very wealthy but it's left millions and millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache – and our towns and cities with empty factories and plants"