Over the course of my journalism career, I’ve frequently been struck by how people tend to view economics in fatalistic terms, accepting the notion that unfathomable wealth alongside mass scarcity is essentially inevitable, and beyond the power of democracy to alter. To pass as a sophisticated person in the twenty-first century often seems to require being resigned to the futility of controlling the forces operating across borders—the capital flows, the technology, the multinational corporations. It means accepting the triumph of Davos Man over the public interest. But that is not really
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