Dignity, Inequality, and the Populist Backlash

Rawi Abdelal 5 June 2021

How we got here

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A global economy already in flux

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And then, for a time, shut down

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In a world already awash in debt

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And epistemological fragmentation

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In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.

—Hannah Arendt

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Amidst rising inequalities, magnified

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An opportunity to reimagine the global economy

Dignity, purpose, meaning

Connecting macro to micro

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Saving globalization

From the ground up

And from the Center

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre

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The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

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Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

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The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

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The ceremony of innocence is drowned

The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity.

—W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming

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