WGBH Forum Network; Dambisa Moyo: Fifty Years of Economic Folly, and the Stark Choices Ahead
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Economist and bestselling author Dambisa Moyo discusses America's economic future and her book, How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Follyand the Stark Choices Ahead.In How the West Was Lost, Moyo sheds light on how a host of shortsighted policy decisions have left the economic seesaw poised to tip away from America and toward the emerging world. Faced with this impending calamity, the United States can choose either to remain open to the international economy or to close itself off, adopting protectionist policies that will give the country time and space to redress these pervasive structural problems.
