Editorial Penguin Books Ltd
Fecha de edición febrero 2023 · Edición nº 1
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780241303412
496 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa dura
Dimensiones 166 mm x 241 mm
From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone 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. 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 Wolf, one of the wisest public voices on global affairs, argues that for all its recent failings - slowing growth, increasing inequality, widespread popular disillusion - democratic capitalism, though inherently fragile, remains the best system we know for human flourishing. Capitalism and democracy are complementary opposites: they need each other if either is to thrive.
Wolf's superb exploration of their marriage shows us how citizenship and a shared faith in the common good are not romantic slogans but the essential foundation of our economic and political freedom.
Martin Wolf es el editor jefe de Economía del Financial Times y está considerado uno de los periodistas económicos más influyentes de la escena internacional.<br> Ha sido profesor visitante en las universidades de Oxford y Nottingham, miembro del Foro Económico Mundial en Davos y miembro de la Comisión Vickers del Reino Unido sobre la banca.<br> En el año 2000 fue ordenado caballero del Imperio británico por sus servicios al periodismo financiero y, en 2012, recibió el Ischia International Journalism Award.<br> Han sido traducidos al español sus libros La globalización liberal: a favor y en contra (Anagrama, 2006), escrito junto a Susan George, y La gran crisis: cambios y consecuencias (Deusto, 2015).
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