Henry Farrell

Associate Professor of political science, George Washington University

Henry Farrell is an associate professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University. His latest book is The Political Economy of Trust (2009).

Written by Henry Farrell

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Economics

Dark Leviathan

The Silk Road might have started as a libertarian experiment, but it was doomed to end as a fiefdom run by pirate kings

Henry Farrell

A child covering their eyes in front of three voting booths inside a room with blue walls and a tiled floor.

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Economics

There is no alternative

Governments now answer to business, not voters. Mainstream parties grow ever harder to distinguish. Is democracy dead?

Henry Farrell