Can democracy survive capitalism?
"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 regulation...
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| Institution: | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
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New York
2018
W.W. Norton & Company |
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| author | Kuttner, Robert |
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| description | "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. " |
| format | TEXT |
| id | 19398415124911166979_3c0c7f09889c42f595e35df73c92cf0d |
| institution | ETUI-European Trade Union Institute |
| is_hierarchy_id | 19398415124911166979_3c0c7f09889c42f595e35df73c92cf0d |
| is_hierarchy_title | Can democracy survive capitalism? |
| language | English |
| physical | XXII, 359 p. Paper |
| publishDate | 2018 |
| publisher | New York W.W. Norton & Company |
| spellingShingle | Kuttner, Robert democracy capitalism globalization economic and social development welfare state nationalism Can democracy survive capitalism? |
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| title | Can democracy survive capitalism? |
| topic | democracy capitalism globalization economic and social development welfare state nationalism |
| url | https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19398415124911166979-Can-democracy-survive-capitali.htm |