Secrets Of Statecraft: Dambisa Moyo Finds Echoes Of The Gilded Age

Published on April 11, 2022

Zambian-born and Harvard- and Oxford-educated economist Dambisa Moyo is the author of several important books on the interaction between finance and statecraft. Here she examines America’s Gilded Age, and finds a surprising number of comparisons with our own.

ABOUT THE SERIES

Secrets of Statecraft​ is a bi-monthly podcast hosted by Andrew Roberts which explores the effect that the study of History has had on the careers and decision-making of public figures, and which will also ask leading historians about the influence that the study of History had on their biographical subjects. The title is taken from Winston Churchill’s reply on Coronation Day 1953 to a young American who had asked him for life-advice, to whom he said ‘Study History, study History, for therein lie all the secrets of statecraft.’

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[nuqwestr]

Income disparity, whether the Gilded Age or today, is perception based on frame of reference, like the Universe appears flat, but is it? Cosmological crisis: We don't know if the universe is round or flat. Bjorn Lomborg does a better job in creating a framework showing all boats rising in both the Gilded Age and today. For those like Moyo, the glass being half-empty serves her a priori agenda, not very scientific.

[lorimeldrum]

Government functioning at a "higher Level" is most definitely NOT what is needed.