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Ben Kodres-O'Brien

Ben Kodres-O'Brien
Communications PhD student at the Columbia Journalism School
Interviews

Globalization’s Discontent

How a Financial Times journalist became a prominent critic of globalization

February 22, 2023 • by Rana Foroohar and Ben Kodres-O'Brien
In my interview with Rana Foroohar, we discuss her childhood and professional trajectory, and discover how she came to formulate the ideas that comprise her economic vision...

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Capitalism

Is Capitalism in Crisis, Dying, Dead — or Very Much Alive, for Better or Worse?

In search of an elusive concept

August 27, 2020 • by Ben Kodres-O'Brien
In 2014, a Museum of Capitalism opened for the first time, as if to commemorate a dying form of life. “The museum began just as capitalism ended,” declared the wall text for the most recent iteration of the travelling museum, at The New School in New York in fall 2019: ...
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