📖 Ruchir Sharma：《What Went Wrong with Capitalism》2024
有的时候，你只听到一个采访中的只言片语，就能感到引人入胜。。。 这人有货！
https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/07/20 ... capitalism
In bestselling author Ruchir Sharma’s new book, which he will discuss at this talk, he rewrites the standard histories, which trace today’s popular anger to the anti-government rebellion that began under Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
The now widely accepted narrative is that four decades of downsizing government - cutting taxes, spending, and regulations - left the financial markets free to run wild, fuelling inequality, slowing growth - and alienating much of the population. Sharma exposes the story of shrinking government as a myth. With historical and global sweep, he shows that government has expanded steadily as a regulator, borrower, spender, and micro manager of the business cycle for a century. Working with central banks, particularly in the last two decades, governments created a culture of easy money and bailouts that is making the rich richer, and big companies bigger. Sharma says progressive youth are part right that capitalism has morphed into “socialism for the very rich.” The broader issue, however, is socialized risk for the poor, the middle class and the rich; government is trying to guarantee that no one ever suffers economic pain by borrowing heavily to prevent recessions, extend recoveries, and generate endless growth. The result is rapidly rising debt and declining competition—exactly the environment in which oligopolies and billionaires do best.