Torben Iversen is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. His books include Women, Work, and Politics and Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare. David Soskice is School Professor and Professor of Political Science and Economics at the London School of Economics. His books include Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability, and the Financial System (with Wendy Carlin) and Varieties of Capitalism (edited with Peter A. Hall).
"One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: Economics"
"Thought-provoking."---Martin Wolf, Financial Times
"Many on the right argue that democracy subverts capitalism. Many
on the left argue that capitalism undermines democracy. In this
brilliant book, Iversen and Soskice argue compellingly that both
views are wrong."---Martin Wolf, Financial Times, Summer Books of
2019
"Persuasively argue[d]."---Edwards Hadas, Reuters BreakingViews
"Iversen & Soskice present a unique analysis of the relationship
between capitalism and democracy. . . .[Democracy and Prosperity]
offers a brilliant framework that will be greatly acknowledged as
well as critiqued in the coming years."---M Karem Coban, Democratic
Audit UK
"Iversen and Soskice present a unique analysis of the relationship
between capitalism and democracy . . . . [this] book offers a
brilliant framework that will be greatly acknowledged as well as
critiqued in the coming years."---M Kerem Coban, LSE Review of
Books
"The authors deliver an impressive series of empirical findings and
theoretical arguments in favor of this unconventional and bold
thesis at odds with an era in which illiberal democracies and
populist movements prosper."---Robert Boyer, Journal of Economics
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