Ospitiamo volentieri un intervento dell'amico economista russo Denis Melnik.
Denis Melnik is Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow). His current research focuses on history economic thought and on theories of economic development. During the recent years he was a visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research and Kanagawa University (Japan).
Denis Melnik is Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow). His current research focuses on history economic thought and on theories of economic development. During the recent years he was a visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research and Kanagawa University (Japan).
Economic nationalism and neoliberal globalism in a Trump world
During the past U.S. election campaign, the mainstream
approach presented Trump’s words and deeds as erratic and purely impulsive
reactions of emotionally vulnerable, ‘thin-skinned’, mentally unstable person.
Trying to make use of that, his opponents deliberately tried to punch him to
produce in response a flurry of tweets, etc. providing further evidence that he
was ‘uniquely unfit’ for the job. Whether it was a flaw in the mainstream
approach, a failure of democratic electoral mechanism, or something else — the
job is his now. And it has become pretty clear that those things he was saying
on the campaign trail were more or less what he meant. So the question now is: how
far Trump can go in implementation of his agenda.
