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He is Lorry from Columbia. He is a gentleman of liberal thought who unfortunately

conservatives have to read to try to keep up to speed on the outrageous on income, on on wealth the pushback from conservatives is well the

classic 2002 is globalization as discontents there's a long new afterward.

It's not just like a six page afterward,

you really put some thought into it.

When you wrote the afterward, I'm sure you had an idea in your mind

and then you had to rewrite the afterward. What was the rewrite like of the new

afterward? Well the big idea was that when I wrote the globalization and discontent I just

left being chief economist of the World Bank. I saw the discontent in the

developing world and I saw that there was a real rationale behind that

discontent. Globalization had been behind that

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