“The World” according to the Financial Times’ Martin Wolf

Map of the international community. Source: Terrible Maps

Have a look at this map. Is there anything missing from it? If you were Martin Wolf, the Chief Economics Commentator of the Financial Times, you would probably think that this is a map of “the world”—all of it. This is hardly a sarcastic remark, and I will prove it to you in this post.

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