A world of insecurity democratic disenchantment in rich and poor countries
- Cambridge Harvard University Press 2022
- 225p. ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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