Peter Goodman
The Reformer
Changing the system from inside it, principle turned into change.
Peter Goodman earns The Reformer designation by indicting structures rather than scapegoats. The New York Times global economics correspondent builds sustained, evidence-driven cases against economic orthodoxy itself, targeting shareholder primacy, ruthless-efficiency metrics, and monopoly consolidation as the systemic logic that manufactures the crises it claims to prevent.
“Yeah, so you know, I was one of those kids who got out of college and just did what I wanted to do. I liked write. I had been sort of a political activist in college, but life seemed more complicated than it did to my activist friends. So journalism drew me. And I wanted to go check out Southeast Asia.”
“But beneath a lot of this, it turns out, is market concentration and various forms of collusion. I mean, oh, what a coincidence every time one airline lifts their fare from New York to LA. The other ones, go ahead. How interesting that this just happens to be how it works out, every single time. You know, why is that?”
“Let's face it, we all click agree, read all the terms to millions of documents a day that we don't even read a sentence of, right? And suddenly we're living in the fine print. Oh, there actually are terms that are going to apply here.”
“What's going on? I'm not like the bravest soul. But there's nothing like being in a place. And boy, I mean, Iraq after Saddam was just a gold mine for journalists because there are all these people, many of whom are English-speaking, who are dying to tell their stories, whether it's like, how do these trading companies work despite Americ…”
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