Publisher's Synopsis
The UK is taking back its independence at a time when some of the unspoken assumptions of recent times are shifting. To speak of the political left or the political right no longer has a clear meaning. Some say that the real divide is between globalisation and nationalism, but this distinction fails to capture what is really at stake, namely the accountability of political power. In this new book, David G. Green argues that the challenge today is not to choose between the left and the right, the market and the state, open or closed societies, or free trade and protection. Rather, it is to decide whether we want the overwhelming concentration of unaccountable power, or dispersed and accountable power in national democracies in which rulers are temporary office holders who act as trustees for the people themselves. The main threat to the success of Brexit therefore is that the government will be paralysed by the economic ideology of marke
