The Rise of Global Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class with Joel Kotkin

Описание: Described by the New York Times as “America’s uber-geographer,” Joel Kotkin is an internationally-recognized authority on global, economic, political, and social trends. His work over the past decade has focused on inequality and class mobility as well as how regions can address these pressing issues.

Mr. Kotkin is the Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University in Orange, California and Executive Director of the Houston-based Urban Reform Institute. He is Senior Fellow for Heartland Forward and Executive Editor of the widely read website NewGeography.com. He is a regular contributor to the City Journal, Daily Beast, Quillette, and Real Clear Politics.

Kotkin recently completed several studies including on Texas urbanism, the future of localism, the changing role of transit in America, and, most recently, California’s lurch towards feudalism. He is co-author of a report published in 2018 on the revival of the American Heartland. As director of the Center for Demographics and Policy at Chapman, he was the lead author of a major study on housing, and recently, with Marshall Toplansky, published a strategic analysis for Orange County, CA.

His next book, The Coming of Neo Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class, deals with the issue of declining upward mobility and growing inequality in almost all middle and high-income countries. Kotkin is also the author of eight previous books, published in numerous languages.