Endgame

Globalisation as we know it is over. Governments continue to embrace regressive industrial policies, geopolitical tensions are rising higher and higher, and resurgent far-right movements are threatening the foundations of contemporary democracies. In this book, Jamie Merchant traces the roots of this decline beyond the oft-blamed failures of the post-Cold War era. Instead, Merchant argues that the great political and economic changes of the last decade are due not to globalisation but to the long-term decay of the market-based economic order. By historicizing this period of globalisation and decline, Endgame illuminates a path forward for both the global economy and international politics.