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b'Martin Wolf is a renowned\\xa0Financial Times\\xa0columnist, and his new book is\\xa0The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. In it, he argues that liberal democracy and market capitalism are inextricably linked \\u2013 and that both must be reformed to survive. Bethany and Luigi discuss with Wolf how meritocracy, rising inequality, polarization, and the erosion of trust led to this crisis and debate whether it was policy failures or the mistakes of capitalism that exacerbated it. Ultimately, they also try to answer the question: Will the US be a functioning democracy by the end of the century?'