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EPISODE · May 24, 2010 · 7 MIN

The grasshoppers and the ants – a modern fable

from FT Martin Wolf

Today’s global economy is more complex than Aesop could have imagined. What would be the moral of a contemporary version of his famous story where the “ants” are Germans, Chinese and Japanese, while the “grasshoppers” are American, British, Greek, Irish and Spanish, asks Martin Wolf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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