Economy for and Against 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 Economy for and Against Democracy write by Keith Hart. This book was released on 2015-10-01. Economy for and Against Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Political constitutions alone do not guarantee democracy; a degree of economic equality is also essential. Yet contemporary economies, dominated as they are by global finance and political rent-seekers, often block the realization of democracy. The comparative essays and case studies of this volume examine the contradictory relationship between the economy and democracy and highlight the struggles and visions needed to make things more equitable. They explore how our collective aspirations for greater democracy might be informed by serious empirical research on the human economy today. If we want a better world, we must act on existing social realities.
Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance
Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance - 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, Governance, and Economic Performance write by Yi Feng. This book was released on 2003. Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A theoretical and empirical examination of why political institutions and organizations matter in economic growth.
Democracy Against Domination
Democracy Against Domination - 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 Domination write by K. Sabeel Rahman. This book was released on 2017. Democracy Against Domination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 2008, the collapse of the US financial system plunged the economy into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. In its aftermath, the financial crisis pushed to the forefront fundamental moral and institutional questions about how we govern the modern economy. What are the values that economic policy ought to prioritize? What institutions do we trust to govern complex economic dynamics? Much of popular and academic debate revolves around two competing approaches to these fundamental questions: laissez-faire defenses of self-correcting and welfare-enhancing markets on the one hand, and managerialist turns to the role of insulated, expert regulation in mitigating risks and promoting growth on the other. In Democracy Against Domination, K. Sabeel Rahman offers an alternative vision for how we should govern the modern economy in a democratic society. Drawing on a rich tradition of economic reform rooted in the thought and reform politics of early twentieth century progressives like John Dewey and Louis Brandeis, Rahman argues that the fundamental moral challenge of economic governance today is two-fold: first, to counteract the threats of economic domination whether in the form of corporate power or inequitable markets; and second, to do so by expanding the capacity of citizens themselves to exercise real political power in economic policymaking. This normative framework in turn suggests a very different way of understanding and addressing major economic governance issues of the post-crisis era, from the challenge of too-big-to-fail financial firms, to the dangers of regulatory capture and regulatory reform.
Growth Against Democracy
Growth Against 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 Growth Against Democracy write by H. L. T. Quan. This book was released on 2012. Growth Against Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Growth against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern World, by H.L.T. Quan, is a radical critique of development as a modern project. Using three historical cases (Brazil-Japan, China-Africa, and US-Iraq), Quan probes the discursive practices of modern development, exploring the coercive and juridical dimensions of trade, diplomacy and war and their impact. This study builds on the critical works of neoliberalism, capitalist development, and empire to lay the groundwork for an honest assessment of neoliberal economics and foreign conducts and their impact on human life.
Capitalism v. Democracy
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.
