Contents

Introduction

Part One: The Twin Challenges of Globalisation and Technology

1 Globalisation and its perversions

2 What to do with obsolete humans

Part Two: Dysfunctional Economics and the Decline of the West

3 The falling share of labour in the economy

4 Rising inequality in developed countries

5 The debt explosion in the West

6 The free market, politics and the road to the Great Financial Crisis

Part Three: Dysfunctional Politics and the Decline of the West

7 The challenge to democracy

8 The capture of the political system by private interest groups

9 Declining taxes and the pauperisation of the nation state

10 The rise of China

Part Four: The Failure of the Free Market and Representative Democracy – and what to do about it

11 Solutions

Notes

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