William Greider

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William Greider (born August 6, 1936 in Cincinnati , † December 25, 2019 in Washington, DC ) was an American editor and author .

Life

Raised in Wyoming , Ohio , he attended local schools and from 1958 Princeton University . After retiring from the Army , Greider initially worked for the Wheaton Daily Journal and the Times and Courier Journal . This was followed by nearly 15 years as a correspondent and later a columnist for the Washington Post . Greider's column appeared regularly in Rolling Stone Magazine from the early 1980s through 1999 . He later worked as a national affairs correspondent for The Nation , a major American weekly political newspaper.

In his books, especially The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to A Moral Economy , Greider dealt with the social and moral aspects of capitalism , industrialization and globalization .

For his most popular book, One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism , Paul Krugman criticized him in 1999 and called him an Accidental Theorist .

Works

  • Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country. Simon & Schuster, 1987, ISBN 067147989X .
  • Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy. Simon & Schuster, 1992, ISBN 067168891X .
  • One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism. Simon & Schuster, 1997, ISBN 0684811413 .
    • German: end of the line globalization. Capitalism eats its children. From the American by Bea Reiter. Heyne-Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-453-13854-6 .
  • Fortress America: The American Military and the Consequences of Peace. Public Affairs, 1998, ISBN 1891620096 .
  • The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to A Moral Economy. Simon & Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0684862190 .
  • Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (And Redeeming Promise) Of Our Country. Rodale 2009, ISBN 978-1594868160 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katharine Q. Seelye: William Greider, Journalist Who Focused on Economy, Dies at 83 , nytimes.com, December 26, 2019, accessed December 27, 2019
  2. ^ Paul Krugman: The Accidental Theorist. Penguin, London 1999. p. 18 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Greider, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American editor and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2019
Place of death Washington, DC