... failures, especially in financial markets of the type that have subsequently led to the financial crises of the last couple of years and the ensuing destabilisation of fragile political regimes; (iii) that globalisation is undoing the social bond that has held nation states together as they have developed in the post Westphalian era. The first two charges are the stuff of ... had pursued them in the past. Moreover, the empirical record on the alleviation of human suffering in the late twentieth century, notwithstanding remaining human hardship, was according to Harvard economist Richard...

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