In a conversation introduced by Janet Gornick, Paul Krugman and Branko Milanovic speak to Anthea Roberts and Nicholas Lamp about their new book, “Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters.” The book, published by Harvard University Press, is an essential guide to the intractable public debates about the virtues and vices of economic globalization, cutting through the complexity to reveal the fault lines that divide us and the points of agreement that might bring us together. The authors guide readers through six competing narratives about the virtues and vices of globalization: the old establishment view that globalization benefits everyone (win–win), the pessimistic belief that it threatens us all with pandemics and climate change (lose–lose), along with various rival accounts that focus on specific winners and losers, from China to America’s Rust Belt.
Anthea Roberts is a professor of global governance at Australian National University and a Stone Center affiliated scholar. Nicolas Lamp is an associate professor of the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University and is cross-appointed to the Queen’s School of Policy Studies.