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About the Author
Krishnan Nayar (full name Radhakrishnan) has written on international affairs and world history for 'The Times Literary Supplement,' 'Times Higher Education,' the 'New Statesman,' 'The Political Quarterly' and 'Dagens Nyheter' (Sweden). He has also worked for the BBC World Service. Long a Londoner, he now lives in Vancouver.
Reviews
'Liberal Capitalist Democracy challenges readers to understand the modern era (mostly European and Western) along revisionist theoretical lines. Nayar... ruthlessly critiques the flaws of his chosen authorities in both the Marxist and liberal traditions of the past few centuries...Nayar makes his case very well...Highly recommended.' -- CHOICE
'This book is written in a remarkably witty style... Nayar's forceful criticism of neoliberalism is very relevant.' -- Philosophy and Society
'Nayar makes many good points in this hefty book. He is surely right when he says that today's market fundamentalists are the mirror image of those who still cleave to Marxism--dreamers of a world that would be ideal if only its recalcitrant inhabitants would get with the programme. And his line on the Second World War--that it was the... by-product of "autocratic modernisation and capitalist instability"--is bracing, to say the least.' -- The Tablet
'The book is impressive in the amount of detail it marshals, in Nayar's erudition and his eye for the unusual and the absurd, and his take-no-prisoner style. . . often acerbic, and in some cases savage or funny, commentary . . . it deals in a very persuasive manner with a critically important period in western political history and makes us rather fearful of the future.' -- Branko Milanovic
'This is a really bracing survey of the history of liberalism, and a reminder that capitalism can ally with authoritarian systems as easily as with democratic ones. A stark warning to safeguard democracy against its impostors.' -- Azeem Ibrahim, author of 'Authoritarian Century: Omens of a Post-Liberal Future'
'Nayar demonstrates independence of mind, historical awareness and freedom from academic jargon in this original, disturbing and accessible book explaining why capitalism is, once again, tending towards fascism worldwide.' -- Andrew Robinson, author of 'Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist'
Book Information
ISBN 9781787389496
Author Krishnan Nayar
Format Hardback
Page Count 496
Imprint C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Publisher C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd