Sir James Michael "Jimmy" Goldsmith (26 February 1933 18 July 1997) was an Anglo-French financier. Towards the end of his life, he became a magazine publisher and a politician. In 1994, he was elected to represent France as a Member of the European Parliament and he subsequently founded the short-lived eurosceptic Referendum Party in Britain.
In this interview, Sir Goldsmith discusses the ramifications of free-trade agreements that were about to take place in 1994 (GATT), as you can retrospectively see, he correctly predicted many of the things that happened after that.
Discussion on James Goldsmith and criticism of GATT (scribd)
James Goldsmith GATT Senate Testimony (1995) - mp3 in link (archive.org)
Goldsmiths book "
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Did he get it right? The blowing of serial credit bubbles (internet & housing) during the 90's & 00's allowed the effects of globalization on income to be masked.