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How societies can preserve democracy with a human-directed social
contract.The recent rise of populist movements, especially in
Western democracies, has prompted considerable thoughtful analysis.
This remarkable book, digging deeper than most such efforts, cites
the global financial crisis as the proximate cause but finds the
ultimate source in the twin failures of modern capitalism and the
democratic state to fulfill a meaningful social contract for the
vast majority of people. The book's focus on the financial crisis
underscores how the promises of liberal democracy were repeatedly
broken by financial and political elites, with a backlash emerging
in the form of 'us-against-them' populism. By undermining the hopes
and livelihoods of millions of people, the crisis created its own
narrative, with consequences capable of causing lasting damage to
the liberal world order. To restore the values of liberal
democracy, the author proposes a 'truly human social contract'
supported by a narrative of empathy. The basis of such a contract
is a new view of civil and social rights as an expression of human
dignity, with economic factors understood as moral concerns, not
just as a matter of who gets the most.
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