Howard Wachtel Académico Asociado

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Howard Wachtel fue el primer coordinador del programa de economía mundial del TNI y actualmente es profesor emérito de Economía en la American University de Washington DC.

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Howard fue investigador adjunto en el TNI. Es experto en la financiarización de la economía mundial y previó la crisis financiera mucho antes de que estallara en otoño de 2008. Su libro publicado en 2003, Street of Dreams. Boulevard of Broken Hearts: Wall Street's First Century (London: Pluto Press), constituye una historia ampliamente respetada de la infame calle neoyorquina.

Latest work

Globalization and Decommissioning Democracy

Trade

Discussions of the threat to liberal democracy have neglected perhaps the most surprising source that is one of the major arcs of history of the last three decades: globalization. It promised the promotion of liberal democracy encapsulated in neoliberal economics whose components include free movement of capital and finance, free trade, free movement of people, and the free transfer of ideas through social media. While globalization has achieved many of these four freedoms, it has also fostered its precise opposite: a borderless world that has stripped the principal source of political democracy – the nation state -- of much of its political and economic legitimacy for the liberal democracy that created globalization. Governments became weakened by the very fraying of its borders wrought by a globalization they promoted.

Article by

Howard Wachtel

Publication date: 2 February 2021
Street of Dreams - Boulevard of Broken Hearts Wall Street's First Century

Finance

This is the story of America's most famous street, Wall Street. Exploring its development through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Wachtel charts its dramatic transformation, offering a window on the past that helps us understand how it became the center of world finance that we see today.

Book by

Howard Wachtel

Publication date: 2 May 2003