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Graeme Maxton
Maxton, Graeme
Maxton, GraemeEconomist, Author and Member of the Club of Rome |
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Economist, Author and Member of the Club of Rome
Graeme Maxton is an economist, author and Member of the Club of Rome. His most recent book, The End of Progress – How modern economics has failed us, was nominated for the Financial Times Best Book About Business Award, has been translated into several languages and became a top-20 international best-seller. Previously a contributor to The Economist, he now writes for a range of international newspapers and magazines and is a regular host of CNBC’s Squawk Box. Based in Vienna and Hong Kong he is currently working on a book on bubbles (not the soapy sort).
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The Dogma of Democracy Gone Sour
( Global Governance & Law )
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"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment." - Robert Hutchins
Abstract
When it comes to political organisation the western world likes to claim the moral high ground. It touts the benefits of free and fair elections, as if the concept of democracy were a self-evident, eternal truth. For the US State Department, democracy has taken on near-religious significance....