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The Confidence Trap

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Confidence Trap

By David Runciman

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About the book

Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of crisis, from the First World War to the economic crash of 2008. A global history with a special focus on the United States, The Confidence Trap examines how democra...Show more

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9780691178134

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2017

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1

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The Confidence Trap

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