Carolina QuotesBlackboard economists said that globalization would be good for Americans. ...It had a few winners and... many losers. ...It ...led to an epidemic of Deaths of Despair in which so much was destroyed in America. Hyper-globalization destroyed... neighborhoods and cities and everything in the Rust Belt... It was like an atomic bomb hit... Alcohol poisoning, drug overdoses accelerated... the destruction of human lives.
John Komlos Connected to the Carolinas
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- A Progressive View on the Need for a Paradigm Shift in Economics (Dec 2020)
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- 2020
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