William Greider

Who is William Greider?

William Greider is an American journalist and author who writes primarily about economics.

His most recent book is Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall Of Our Country. Before that he published The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy, which explores the basis and history of the corporation and how people can influence further development of it. He is national affairs correspondent for The Nation, a liberal political weekly. Prior to his work at The Nation, he wrote for Rolling Stone magazine during the 1980s and 1990s, and worked as an on-air correspondent for Frontline on PBS.

Greider also wrote a book on globalization – One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism – which suggested vulnerabilities and inequities of the global economy. The credibility of this work was heavily criticized by economist Paul Krugman, who claimed that Greider ignored the fallacies of composition that run rampant in the work, misinterpreted facts, and misled readers with false assumptions – all possibly due to his lack of consultation with economists.