Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline

A new account of globalization’s decline as the natural outworking of market economics.

Globalization as we know it is over. Industrial policies dismissed as obsolete for decades have been embraced by governments worldwide, 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 globalization but to the long-term decay of the market-based economic order. By historicizing this period of globalization and decline, Endgame illuminates a path forward for both the global economy and international politics.

Jamie Merchant is an economics and political commentator based in Chicago. His writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, The Baffler, The Nation, In These Times, and elsewhere.