Bob Hancké, Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science and Managing Director, PEACS, UK, Toon Van Overbeke, Assistant Professor of Europe, Climate and Digital Society, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands and Dustin Voss, Senior Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany

• ContentsPreface viii1 Political economy discovered 2 Capitalism and democracy 3 Interests make the world go around 4 The power of ideas in political economy 5 Institutions and the wealth of nations 6 Markets and their failures 7 The welfare state between state, market and society 8 Why are some democracies more unequal than others? 9 Coordination and cooperation in an interdependent world Afterword Bibliography

Bob Hancké, Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science and Managing Director, PEACS, UK, Toon Van Overbeke, Assistant Professor of Europe, Climate and Digital Society, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands and Dustin Voss, Senior Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany

• ContentsPreface viii1 Political economy discovered 2 Capitalism and democracy 3 Interests make the world go around 4 The power of ideas in political economy 5 Institutions and the wealth of nations 6 Markets and their failures 7 The welfare state between state, market and society 8 Why are some democracies more unequal than others? 9 Coordination and cooperation in an interdependent world Afterword Bibliography

Bob Hancké, Visiting Senior Fellow, London School of Economics and Political Science and Managing Director, PEACS, UK, Toon Van Overbeke, Assistant Professor of Europe, Climate and Digital Society, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands and Dustin Voss, Senior Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany

• ContentsPreface viii1 Political economy discovered 2 Capitalism and democracy 3 Interests make the world go around 4 The power of ideas in political economy 5 Institutions and the wealth of nations 6 Markets and their failures 7 The welfare state between state, market and society 8 Why are some democracies more unequal than others? 9 Coordination and cooperation in an interdependent world Afterword Bibliography