Daniel Markovits on How To Fix Democracy

In our second series of How to Fix Democracy, we’ve been focusing on this complicated relationship between capitalism and democracy. And in this series, we’ve had some pretty severe critics of capitalism. Richard Wolf and Gabriel Zucman for example, I wouldn’t necessarily call them traditional Marxists, but they definitely borrow quite a lot of Marxist language in their critique of 21st century capitalism and of its inequality, particularly in the relationship between capital and labor. My guest today, Daniel Markovits, who is a Professor at Yale University and the author of The…