About Thomas McDermott

Thomas McDermott is a PhD student at the School of Business and the Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. His research is primarily situated at the intersection of environmental and development economics. However, he also enjoys writing on political economy and the climate policy debate, among other issues.

A Year of Revolution

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In a year of revolution, causes have been easier to identify than consequences. In 1989, following the end of the Cold War, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote in The End of History? of the “unabashed victory of economic and political liberalism”, marking “the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of [...]