Trumpian populism hasn’t taken off in Australia. I think I know why

One good thing about taking a break from work is that it gives you time to let your mind wander from all the pressing concerns of our fast-moving world – the preoccupation with this “crisis” and that “crisis” – to less immediate but more important problems. And it helps if you’ve used the time to read a good book or two. Illustration by John Shakespeare Credit: On my recent long break – soon to be followed, I fear, by my summer holiday – I read The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism , by Martin Wolf. Wolf is the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times in London, and the global doyen of my tiny profession of economics…