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346 | The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism with Martin Wolf

The Realignment

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What Are the Bounds of Capitalism?

The United States is the only market democracy that I know of which doesn't have a universal health system It makes the US an extreme outlier in this respect. Giving women maternity leave for example, I know doing so or giving generous paid leave there are all sorts interventions which are completely normal in every other Democratic capitalist country. We've now got is a relationship that is somewhat dysfunctional Not really somewhat very dysfunctional and one of the sentence is an enormous search of The American school pop what you would call populism. On both the left and the right and a rejection of the middle And my argument essentially is if that continues there's a very real risk of political breakdown and Possibly the emergence of some form of aut

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