Illiberal Capitalism as a Test Case for Critiques of Liberalism

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Brief Overview

Is liberalism to blame for the crisis of meaning in the West? Or is capitalism? I propose using China's illiberal capitalism as a test case to disentangle the effects of capitalism vs. liberalism by comparing the development of China and the USA.

Author

• Dan Gilles, The University of Chicago