What Happened to Liberal Democracy? Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity - Daron Acemoglu

Category: History, Political
Language: English
Keywords: Authoritarianism Democratic-backsliding Democratic-renewal Economic-insecurity Elite-capture Globalisation Inequality Institutional-decay Liberal-democracy Pluralism Polarisation Political Economy Political-trust Populism State-capacity

Written by Daron Acemoglu
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

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From its inception, liberalism offered a glittering promise of shared prosperity, equality, democratic values and the free pursuit of knowledge. At first, it flourished. And then it faltered. Once a tantalising beacon of hope, it began to erode and decay at the hands of elitism, intolerance and rising autocracy.

One could say that liberalism is broken. So what comes next?

Nobel prize-winning co-author of Why Nations Fail Daron Acemoglu charts the rise and fall of liberal democracy, and offers hope for a way forward: a new theory that lays the groundwork for how we can - and must - remake liberalism before it’s too late.