Capitalism v. Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capitalism v. Democracy write by Timothy Kuhner. This book was released on 2014-06-25. Capitalism v. Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As of the latest national elections, it costs approximately $1 billion to become president, $10 million to become a Senator, and $1 million to become a Member of the House. High-priced campaigns, an elite class of donors and spenders, superPACs, and increasing corporate political power have become the new normal in American politics. In Capitalism v. Democracy, Timothy Kuhner explains how these conditions have corrupted American democracy, turning it into a system of rule that favors the wealthy and marginalizes ordinary citizens. Kuhner maintains that these conditions have corrupted capitalism as well, routing economic competition through political channels and allowing politically powerful companies to evade market forces. The Supreme Court has brought about both forms of corruption by striking down campaign finance reforms that limited the role of money in politics. Exposing the extreme economic worldview that pollutes constitutional interpretation, Kuhner shows how the Court became the architect of American plutocracy. Capitalism v. Democracy offers the key to understanding why corporations are now citizens, money is political speech, limits on corporate spending are a form of censorship, democracy is a free market, and political equality and democratic integrity are unconstitutional constraints on money in politics. Supreme Court opinions have dictated these conditions in the name of the Constitution, as though the Constitution itself required the privatization of democracy. Kuhner explores the reasons behind these opinions, reveals that they form a blueprint for free market democracy, and demonstrates that this design corrupts both politics and markets. He argues that nothing short of a constitutional amendment can set the necessary boundaries between capitalism and democracy.
Capitalism and Social Democracy
Capitalism and Social Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capitalism and Social Democracy write by Adam Przeworski. This book was released on 1986-12-26. Capitalism and Social Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Not to repeat past mistakes: the sudden resurgence of a sympathetic interest in social democracy is a response to the urgent need to draw lessons from the history of the socialist movement. After several decades of analyses worthy of an ostrich, some rudimentary facts are being finally admitted. Social democracy has been the prevalent manner of organization of workers under democratic capitalism. Reformist parties have enjoyed the support of workers.
Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy
Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy write by Didi Kuo. This book was released on 2018-08-16. Clientelism, Capitalism, and Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the United States and Britain, capitalists organized in opposition to clientelism and demanded programmatic parties and institutional reforms.
The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy
The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy write by Richard A. Posner. This book was released on 2010-01-01. The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Following up on his timely and well-received book, A Failure of Capitalism, Richard Posner steps back to take a longer view of the continuing crisis of democratic capitalism as the American and world economies crawl gradually back from the depths to which they had fallen in the autumn of 2008 and the winter of 2009. By means of a lucid narrative of the crisis and a series of analytical chapters pinpointing critical issues of economic collapse and gradual recovery, Posner helps non-technical readers understand business-cycle and financial economics, and financial and governmental institutions, practices, and transactions, while maintaining a neutrality impossible for persons professionally committed to one theory or another. He calls for fresh thinking about the business cycle that would build on the original ideas of Keynes. Central to these ideas is that of uncertainty as opposed to risk. Risk can be quantified and measured. Uncertainty cannot, and in this lies the inherent instability of a capitalist economy. As we emerge from the financial earthquake, a deficit aftershock rumbles. It is in reference to that potential aftershock, as well as to the government's stumbling efforts at financial regulatory reform, that Posner raises the question of the adequacy of our democratic institutions to the economic challenges heightened by the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. The crisis and the government's energetic response to it have enormously increased the national debt at the same time that structural defects in the American political system may make it impossible to pay down the debt by any means other than inflation or devaluation.
Democracy Against Capitalism
Democracy Against Capitalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy Against Capitalism write by Ellen Meiksins Wood. This book was released on 2016-03-01. Democracy Against Capitalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of “postmodern” fragmentation, “difference,” and con-tingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique. In this book she sets out to renew the critical program of historical materialism by redefining its basic concepts and its theory of history in original and imaginative ways, using them to identify the specificity of capitalism as a system of social relations and political power. She goes on to explore the concept of democracy in both the ancient and modern world, examining its relation to capitalism, and raising questions about how democracy might go beyond the limits imposed on it.
