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IN THE LONG RUN - JONATHAN WHITE GEBUNDEN

'Exhilarating' Financial Times    'Highly perceptive  engaging and somewhat startling' Literary
Review    'A profound meditation on how and why democracy must keep its faith in the future and
the future must keep its faith in democracy' David Runciman   Democracy is future-oriented and
self-correcting: today's problems can be solved  we are told  in tomorrow's elections. But the
biggest issues facing the modern world - from climate collapse and pandemics to recession and
world war - each apparently bring us to the edge of the irreversible. What happens to democracy
when the future seems no longer open?  In this eye-opening history of ideas  Jonathan White
investigates how politics has long been directed by shifting visions of the future  from the
birth of ideologies in the nineteenth century to Cold War secrecy and the excesses of the
neoliberal age.  As an inescapable sense of disaster defines our politics  White argues that a
political commitment to the long-term may be the best way to safeguard democracy. Wide in scope
and sharply observed  In the Long Ru n is a history of the future that urges us to make
tomorrow new again.

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