The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism av Martin Wolf

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<p><b>From the author of <i>The Shifts and the Shocks</i>, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone </b><br><br>We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy and in the very notion of truth. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being strained and rejected, even in democracy''s notional heartlands. Around the world, democratic capitalism, which depends on the determined separation of power from wealth, is in crisis. Some now argue that capitalism is better without democracy; others that democracy is better without capitalism.<br><br>This book is a forceful rejoinder to both views. It analyses how the marriage between capitalism and democracy has become so fraught and yet insists that a divorce would be an almost unimaginable calamity. Martin Wo