In the fifth installment of this six-part series for The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman engage in a discussion about how American politics is colliding with the foundational elements of a stable, democratic system and the established norms of the postwar economic framework. They also explore how these tensions might undermine the United States’ influential role on the global stage.
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The Wolf-Krugman Exchange: Testing economic guardrails
In the fifth of this six-part series of The Economics Show, Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman discuss the way American politics is crashing against both the guard-rails of a stable, democratic system and the rules and norms of the postwar economic order. They also consider how this could jeopardise the importance of the US on the world stage