The belief in the efficiency of free-trade globalisation is based on abstract microeconomic reasoning disconnected from our real world.
Professor of world politics at the University of Helsinki and is the author of Disintegrative Tendencies in Global Political Economy: Exits and Conflicts (Routledge, 2018).
The euro crisis followed by Brexit have shattered the EU to the core. Heikki Patomäki sets out a new approach to economic and social convergence in the EU.