Book Reviews
Who Governs After the Experts? Reading Clara Mattei’s Escape from Capitalism
In Washington, the president has spent the winter browbeating the Federal Reserve: demanding rate cuts by decree, musing aloud about removing its chair, treating monetary policy as a personal prerogative. In Ankara, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spent the better part of a decade wresting monetary policy from his own central bankers, until a currency crisis forced him to hand it back to the orthodox technocrats he had spent years denouncing. The complaint that unelected experts hold too much unaccountable power over the economy, that a technocratic caste has placed the most consequential decisions beyond the reach of ordinary people, is in our moment voiced most loudly not on the left but on the authoritarian right.
14.07.2026
