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WHITE JONATHAN IN THE LONG RUN

'Exhilarating' Financial Times'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 RuncimanDemocracy 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 Run is a history of the future that urges us to
make tomorrow new again.

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