Conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Instead over the last 40 years, the world has regionalized. My new book, out today, explains how this happened, where we’re headed and what this means for the 🇺🇸. amzn.to/3TyZIAe 🧵 (1/16) Companies, money, and people have indeed gone abroad. But they haven’t gone just anywhere. More often than not, they stayed closer to 🏠. They went regional. (2/16)

As my new book The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter with @yalepress debuts tomorrow Oct 18 (amzn.to/3zjDDfP), I want to give a shout out to 2 other books that are great publication day company: 🧵 I’ve gotten a peak at @kathycorcoran In the Mouth of the Wolf, which beautifully tells the tragic tale of journalist Regina Martinez’s murder for uncovering government corruption and lays out the broader threat to Mexico’s independent press and democracy: bit.ly/3rYbJCD

1/ Now day 13 of US government shutdown, let’s take a look at the claims and reality behind the need for a southern border Wall (thread): 2/ Migration: Illegal border crossings are at 21st century low: 1.6 million in 2000; 500,000 in 2018. Declines due to Mexican growth, demographics, & already strong border enforcement. n.pr/2DemcSH bit.ly/2F9KhL5 bit.ly/2SiveTh Wall won’t change this