Brian Judge is a policy fellow at the Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence and the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy at the University of California, Berkeley.
Democracy in Default upends everything we thought we knew about the relationship between neoliberalism and the rise of finance. Exit the Chicago Boys, Wall Street types, and central bankers. In Judge’s gripping play, finance cozies up to unions and city officials facing unsolvable distributional dilemmas. The result is escalating financial risk and—when bets turn sour—crisis and retrenchment. A dark, essential analysis of the collapse of the democratic-liberal order. -- Marion Fourcade, author of <i>Economists and Societies</i>