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Title: Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
Author: KUTTNER ROBERT
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 16/04/2019
Imprint: POLITY
Price: $27.95
Publishing status: Active
In the years surrounding the Second World War, a serendipitous confluence of events created a healthy balance between the market and the polity-between the engine of capitalism and the egalitarian ideals of democracy. Yet, from the 1970s on, a power shift occurred in which financial regulations were rolled back, taxes were cut, inequality worsened and disheartened voters turned to far-right, faux populism.
Robert Kuttner lays out the events that led to the post-war miracle and charts its dissolution all the way to Trump, Brexit and the tenuous state of the EU. He asks whether today’s poisonous alliance of reckless finance and ultra-nationalism is inevitable, and whether democracy can find a way to survive.
ISBN: 9780393356892
Dimension: 210mm X 140mm
Pages: 384