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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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The Icarus Curse: How Western Democracies Derailed and How to Get Back on Track

The Icarus Curse: How Western Democracies Derailed and How to Get Back on Track

Van Overtveldt, Johan

Hardcover

AccountingBusiness GeneralEconomics

Publisher Price: $35.00

ISBN10: 1572843438
ISBN13: 9781572843431
Publisher: Agate B2
Published: Dec 10 2024
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.19
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Economic anxiety and loss of trust in civic institutions are driving more and more people to political extremes. How did we get here, and how do we get our economic policies back on track before the democracies of the world derail?

From former Belgian minister of finance and bestselling author Johan Van Overtveldt comes a new analysis of the economic forces that have driven us to the brink of a democratic breakdown. The Icarus Curse offers a stark assessment of the current state of Western democracies, once celebrated as the pinnacle of political and economic success. With the demise of the Soviet Union and China's emergence onto the world stage, the Western model faced no viable challengers. However, three decades later, Western democracies find themselves under siege both externally and internally. Russia, Iran, and especially China openly challenge the liberal Western order, while internally, citizens increasingly question the democratic and free market system, leading to polarization and social unrest. The political elite in most Western democracies flew too close to the sun, and now they're crashing.

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