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Democracy Against Domination
K. Sabeel Rahman
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Description for Democracy Against Domination
How do realize democratic values in a complex, deeply unequal modern economy and in the face of unresponsive governmental institutions? Drawing on Progressive Era thought and sparked by the real policy challenges of financial regulation, Democracy Against Domination offers a novel theory of democracy to answer these pressing questions. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JPHV; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 267 x 2. Weight in Grams: 492.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
254
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190468538
SKU
V9780190468538
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About K. Sabeel Rahman
K. Sabeel Rahman is Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School.
Reviews for Democracy Against Domination
The author finds precedence for his interpretation in the writings of Louis Brandeis and John Dewey. Pragmatic regulation by democratically selected grassroots participants promises better outcomes than elite technocrats selected for their expertise... Highly Recommended.
R. S. Hewett (Drake University), Choice Reviews Vol 55.
R. S. Hewett (Drake University), Choice Reviews Vol 55.