Economics as the primary tool of engagement between nations is giving way to walls, some physical, most invisible, that will prevent the free flow of trade and capital. One country after another, one leader at a time, is shedding the weight of the past that knelt at the temple of GDP growth as a proxy for citizen well-being. This reversal would have been insignificant but for the fact that it is currently being led by the US and Europe, whose share in global GDP is significant.
Globalisation is dying. Autarchy is birthing.
