Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize–winning economist and former chief economist at the World Bank, knows how our global system works better than most. His conclusions are stark. “The simultaneous waning of confidence in neoliberalism and in democracy is no coincidence or mere correlation. Neoliberalism has undermined democracy for 40 years. . . . The numbers are in: growth has slowed and the fruits of that growth went overwhelmingly to a very few at the top.” * * *
