Dani Rodrik dubs “the inescapable trilemma of the world economy”.
In a globalised world, a country can have economic integration, the nation-state or democratic politics, but not all three fully.
—The Economist, in ‘The tension between globalisation and democracy’
It can choose integration and the nation-state but give up democratic control to technocratic, supranational institutions. It can choose integration and democracy, but give up the nation-state and disappear into supranational government. Or it can choose the nation-state and democracy by embracing impoverished autarky.
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