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In The Struggle for Development and Democracy Alessandro Olsaretti argues that we need significantly new theories of development and democracy to answer the problem posed by neoliberalism and the populist backlash, namely, uneven development and divisive politics. This book proposes as a first step a truly multidisciplinary humanist social science, to overcome the flaws of neoliberal economic theories, and to recover a balanced approach to theories and policies alike that is especially needed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. These led to divisive culture wars, which were compounded by the divisive populist politics. This book begins to sketch such a humanist social science, and applies it to answer one question: who is responsible for neoliberalism and the populist backlash? All royalties from sales of this volume will go to GiveWell.org in honour of Alessandro Olsaretti's memory.

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Alessandro Olsaretti, Ph.D. (2013), McGill University, was an independent researcher with expertise in sociology and databases. He has published in Critical Sociology, Historical Materialism, and the Journal of Classical Sociology. He also published a novel titled The Caravaggio Code. He died suddenly in Montreal in November 2023.

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