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ABSTRACT
The article argues that while the book brilliantly illustrates the many ways of democratic mending, there is an essential blind spot that runs through the entire book: economic inequality. Democratic processes seem strangely disconnected from the conditions under which people live. However, there can be no democratic equality and no just democracy as long as living conditions in society and among societies remain highly unequal. Accordingly, to unleash its potential the concept of mending should be enriched with an analysis and an understanding of the global political economy of inequality.
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Joscha Wullweber
Joscha Wullweber is a Heisenberg-Professor of Political Economy, Transformation and Sustainability at the Faculty of Economics and Society, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany. His recent publications include (2021) ‘The politics of shadow money: security structures, money creation and unconventional central banking’, New Political Economy, 26(1): 69-85; (2020) The COVID-19 financial crisis, global financial instabilities and transformations in the financial system, Berlin: Heinrich-Böll-Foundation; (2019) ‘Money, State, Hegemony: A political ontology of money’. New Political Science, 41 (2); (2019) ‘Monism vs. pluralism, the global financial crisis, and the methodological struggle in the field of International Political Economy’, Competition and Change.