Eamonn Fingleton (born 19 August 1948) is an Irish financial journalist and author who for 27 years covered global finance and economics from a base in Tokyo. His books, written for a general audience, deal with global economics and globalism. A former editor for the Financial Times and Forbes, he has been published in The Atlantic Magazine, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Harvard Business Review, The American Prospect, and Prospect. He has published five books which have been translated into several languages. Three of them – all on global economic themes – were commissioned by US publishers and first published in the United States. Arguing that US observers systematically underestimate the East Asian economic model, he has long claimed that America is in declin