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Read with Bruegel: The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

The Sound of Economics

CHAPTER

The Unkindness of Revolutions

Right-wing nationalism is a corrosive idea. Progress must come from within the liberal democratic tradition broadly defined. I have two intellectual heroes in this regard, Edmund Burke and Karl Popper. The continental Europeans have shown that it's perfectly possible to have a thriving market economy with a more active state.

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