- Description
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Summary
- "A development economist with roots in India and the United States offers a short but deep and ambitious account of the corrosive effects of economic and cultural insecurity on liberal democracy in rich and poor countries alike. His diagnosis: the problem is not inequality or capitalism, but snowballing fear of material and cultural loss"--
- Uniform Title
- World of insecurity (Online)
- Alternative Title
- World of insecurity (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Insecurity, Inequality, and Democracy -- Take Back Control: Back to the Community? -- The Wild Fire of Resurgent Nationalism -- The Temptation of Authoritarianism -- The Slippery Slope of Majoritarianism -- Social Democracy Redux -- Social Democracy and Capitalism: A Restructuring of Their Fraught Link -- In Search of Economic Security: Universal Basic Income -- In Search of Security: Other Policies.
- LCCN
- 2022004540
- OCLC
- ssj0002708465
- Author
Bardhan, Pranab K.
- Title
A world of insecurity [electronic resource] : democratic disenchantment in rich and poor countries / Pranab Bardhan.
- Imprint
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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