Martin Wolf is a distinguished economist, journalist and author, best known for the columns he writes for The Financial Times from London. Oxford educated, and a former World Bank economist, Wolf has since the 1980s been at the FT, most recently as an associate editor and as the paper's chief economics commentator. For much of that time, he's been chronicling the ups and downs of globalization, in his columns and in books like, Why Globalization Works (2004) and most recently, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. In this lightly edited Q&A, he was asked about whether there was now pressure to decouple and de-globalize, and whether the U.S. strategy to use economic and corporate sanctions against China is a prudent one.
Martin Wolf.Illustration by Kate Copeland
Q: Let's start with your recent book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, in which you write about democracy and capitalism in crisis. Why are these pillars of the western world in crisis?
A: I'm arguing that we go
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