Pundits have widely explained the rise of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland in terms of cultural backlash or the eastern German psyche. Yet its rise is no passing disturbance but a symptom of a much deeper crisis in Europe’s social model.

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In The Common Good Economy, Mariana Mazzucato is clear-eyed on where we need to go, but the next step is understanding the power structures that prevent us from getting there.

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Why do some authoritarian capitalist regimes fail at development despite wielding robust state power? Existing explanations rooted in liberal institutionalism reduce this failure to rent-seeking, w...