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Podcast: New Books in Economics
Episode: Hans Gersbach, "Redesigning Democracy: More Ideas for Better Rules" (Springer, 2018)
Description: For three decades, Hans Gersbach has been using economic analysis and tools to explain and improve political behaviour.His academic career began just as history was supposed to be ending with the victory of liberal democracy. Today, as a string of books argue – most recently Twilight of Democracy by Anne Applebaum (Penguin, 2020) and Our Own Worst Enemy by Tom Nichols‎ (OUP USA, 2021) – things look rather different.Gersbach’s mission to optimise democracy and reduce the disenchantment that feeds extremism has never been more salient.His Redesigning Democracy: More Ideas for Better Rules (Springer, 2017) may be four ye...