Saving globalization from itself
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin wall, globalization as we understood it is buckling under its own weight. But we cannot defend globalization, let alone consider how it might be made to work better in the future, without an honest understanding of where it has failed us in the past. We need to think frankly about why this has happened and what can be done.
If the past quarter century had a manifesto, it was written in Boston.
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Image. A boy kicks against a segment of the Berlin Wall (REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch)
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