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Capitalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Future Beyond Nationalism

Capitalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century: A Global Future Beyond Nationalism

Kitching, Gavin

Hardcover

PhilosophyEconomicsGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0367354934
ISBN13: 9780367354930
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 6 2019
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This short book makes a connection between recent 'tectonic shifts' in the world economy and the political problems currently confronted by western democracies.

The shift of manufacturing away from the West, allied to the pressure to keep costs down in an increasingly competitive global economy, has led to economic inequality, reliance on service industry employment and public sector austerity. All this has in turn produced large numbers of desperate citizens attracted to a populist economic nationalism accompanied by xenophobia. However, the originality of this text lies not in the above argument, but in the philosophical reflections which drive and derive from it. These include reflections on history as a supposed causal process; on the need to make ethical judgements of economic activities and the difficulties of doing so; and on the problems confronting modern citizens in understanding complex economic processes and their political implications.

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