Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times

Mark Bloomfield welcomes  Martin Wolf, Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at Financial Times, about his new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.  
 
Former Secretary of Treasury Lawrence Summers, who kicked off our webinar series, called Martin Wolf “the world’s preeminent financial journalist.” Ben Bernanke, Nobel Prize-winning former chair of the Federal Reserve wrote, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism is "an excellent thought-provoking synthesis of his views on democratic capitalism and how to fix it.” Martin Wolf is also the author of Why Globalization Works and The Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve Learned—and Have Still to Learn from the Financial Crisis.
 
His awards include the Overseas Press Club of America’s prize for Best Commentary, the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gerald Loeb Awards and the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) for services to financial journalism.