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Charlie Rose: Sir James Goldsmith Interview - 15.11.94

Sir James Goldsmith · interview · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

Charlie Rose interviews Sir James Goldsmith in 1994 about the coming GATT free-trade agreement. Goldsmith predicts that global capital mobility will upset the balance between capital and labor.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a prescient interview on free trade and its social consequences, worth watching with hindsight.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “I encourage everyone who cares about this space to watch the 1994 Charlie Rose episode”

    Urges everyone to watch the 1994 interview.

    ItsMonkk, 2021-10 · Strong recommendation · in “Nobody Really Knows How the Economy Works. A Fed Paper Is the Latest Sign”

  2. “For historical context on trade and society, see the classic (1994) Charlie Rose interview”

    Classic 1994 interview on GATT/NAFTA with decades of hindsight.

    walterbell, 2016-01 · Recommendation · in “In 2016, let's hope for better trade agreements – and the death of TPP”

  3. “he correctly predicts that the global movement of capital will disrupt the current agreement between capital and labor”

    Predicts free trade disrupting capital-labor balance.

    sprafa, 2016-11 · Recommendation · in “How Economic Gobbledygook Divides Us”

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Topics: gatt, nafta, free trade, globalization, labor and capital

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