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Martin Wolf on the Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

The Good Fight

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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

I admire your honesty about the difficulty of knowing exactly what to do. Is there a prescription nevertheless? I mean for listeners who agree with you about the crisis of democratic capitalism and the way in which the economic dimension is crucial here. What can all of us do in order to maximize the likelihood that democratic capitalism may survive? Well I think there are low hanging fruit here. We should try and surprise you again to have a politics that focuses on broadly shared welfare rather than fundamentally divisive culture issues. The big problem with cultural issues is they really are zero sub. They're war to the death as it were. That's not so true. If you focus on giving people opportunities for a better life,

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