Book by Paul Verhagen: “…Liberal democracies have treated political development as a finished project. Markets would spread freedom, technology would spread markets, and government would become increasingly administrative. That consensus left democratic institutions unprepared for companies that control public infrastructure, information, and increasingly the terms of political decision-making.
This book is an audit of that failure: what was surrendered, who now holds power, and why the political language we inherited can no longer describe the world we live in…(More)”.