This week on The Sounds of Film, host Tom Needham speaks with journalist and author David J. Lynch about his new book, The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong and What Would Make It Right.

Lynch joined The Washington Post in 2017 after covering white-collar crime for the Financial Times. He has also served as cybersecurity editor at Politico and as a senior writer at Bloomberg News. Earlier in his career, he reported on the global economy for USA Today, opening bureaus in London and Beijing, and covered the wars in Kosovo and Iraq as an embedded journalist with the U.S. Marines. He was also the paper’s first Nieman fellow at Harvard University.

In The World’s Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong and What Would Make It Right, Lynch argues that the United States miscalculated by overcommitting to globalization. Instead of universal prosperity and greater political liberalization, the result was industrial decline, economic dislocation, and a surge in populism. Blending history with on-the-ground reporting, the book traces globalization’s trajectory from the fall of the Soviet Union to today’s geopolitical rivalries, while offering ideas for a more balanced path forward.

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