Introduction
IN SEARCH OF DEMOCRACY,
PROSPERITY, SUSTAINABILITY
We want to live in societies that are free, a world without poverty, and a climate that is hospitable. We want, in brief, democracy, prosperity, and sustainability. How can we achieve all three, in a global economy that has become more conflictual, is rapidly moving away from its previously established norms and arrangements, and faces
a fragile geopolitical context marked by US-China rivalry?
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How can we render them compatible, when so many policy currents are at cross-purposes, moving us away from the other goals even when they appear to advance one of them? These are the questions that lie at the heart of this book.
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