What Walter Isaacson has said about Globalization
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 22, 2026
Walter Isaacson, Biographer and author, has been quoted on Globalization once in 1 episode of The Builders, most recently on October 22, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Isaacson says he and others correctly believed globalization would produce growth but failed to foresee how many people it would leave behind.
“people, like me, believed in globalization, immigration, free trade, free movement of capital, and we thought it would cause growth. And guess what? It did”
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Episodes
Peter Thiel: “We Need to Hit the Accelerator as Hard as Possible” on AIThe Builders · Oct 22, 2026 · 58 min
Walter Isaacson interviews Peter Thiel on the AI backlash, existential risk, his Antichrist lectures, founder-led companies, René Girard, and why he prefers evil to incompetence.
Others on Globalization
- Juan Verde · 2 quotes