The End of Progress? | by Joseph E. Stiglitz - Project Syndicate
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8 Articles

35 years ago, the world experienced an epochal shift with the collapse of European communism. It is known that Francis Fukuyama called this moment the “end of history,” predicting that all societies would end up converging towards liberal democracy and market economies. Today, it is almost a cliché to observe how wrong that prediction was. With the return of Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, perhaps we should call the current era the “end of p…
The End of Progress? | by Joseph E. Stiglitz - Project Syndicate
Though the United States has long led the world in advancing basic science and technology, it is hard to see how this can continue under President Donald Trump and the country’s ascendant oligarchy. America’s rejection of Enlightenment values will have dire consequences.


Joseph Stiglitz was a World Bank chief economist at the end of the last millennium and has been a critic of how the
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