Decent societies need strong states and bounded capitalist economies

Evidence

In today’s Europe, decent societies can be said to rely on a strong and active (but not brutally ‘domineering’) state and a vigorous and innovative (but not recklessly ‘liberated’) capitalist economy as powerful means in the challenge of engaging all citizens and all communities in the task of living together without poverty and humiliation. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 732

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fordism required active nation-state economic management. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 813; State welfare cannot challenge market dependence without undermining capitalism itself — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 78