Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, who has visited NZ and has a close relative living here, and secretly advised our Labour Party during the Ardern era, wrote a best-selling book called, "Globalization and Its Discontents" in 2002. It argued that globalization had hurt many low income workers. Meanwhile, another famous American economist, Harvard Professor Danii Rodrik, wrote a follow-up book called "The Globalization Paradox" in 2011 arguing for a leaner global system "that puts national democracies front and center". It warned of "pushing economic globalization beyond the boundaries of institutions that regulate, stabilize, & legitimize markets. Hyper-globalization in trade & finance, intended to create seamlessly integrated world markets, has torn domestic societies apart". Both Stiglitz & Rodrik wrote their books before Trump became President.
