¿Qué pasó con la democracia liberal? : Reconstruyendo una política de prosperidad compartida

Just a few decades ago, it seemed that liberal democracy had won for good. Communism had fallen, the market economy was taking hold, and freedom appeared to be the inevitable destiny of advanced societies. But that wasn't the case. Today, populism, polarization, distrust of institutions, and rejection of liberalism itself are on the rise. What went wrong? Daron Acemoglu argues that the threat originated within the system itself: it ceased to generate shared prosperity, distanced itself from the working classes, allowed technology to exacerbate inequalities, and ultimately replaced self-governance with technocracy and social engineering. With the intellectual ambition that characterizes the Nobel laureate in Economics and co-author of Why Nations Fail, Acemoglu proposes a reconstruction of the liberal project based on freedom of expression, community, work, innovation, and institutions capable of restoring to the majority of citizens the feeling that democracy is once again working for them.