Private Power and Democracy’s Decline How to Make Capitalism Support Democracy | 765.43 KB
Title: Private Power and Democracy’s Decline
Author: Mordecai Kurz
Category: Business & Finance, Economics, Free Enterprise, Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Technology, Social Aspects, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Government, Democracy
Language: English | 328 Pages | ISBN: 0262053527
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Why unregulated free-market capitalism endangers democracy-and what to do about it.
In Private Power and Democracy’s Decline, Mordecai Kurz explores the relationship between free-market capitalism and democracy. He shows that technology has made capitalism different from what was envisioned in the Age of Enlightenment. Technology creates centers of market power and monopoly concentration that result in a society in which some people are enriched immensely while many workers’ livelihoods are often destroyed. Contrary to conventional thinking, technological competition does not remove market power, which becomes a permanent fixture of free-market capitalism. Such private power creates political inequality and generates forces that cause democracy’s decline and possible destruction.
Applying these ideas to the US, Kurz shows that today’s problems begin in the 1980s with the policy of unregulated free-market capitalism. Coupled with…
Why unregulated free-market capitalism endangers democracy-and what to do about it.
In Private Power and Democracy’s Decline, Mordecai Kurz explores the relationship between free-market capitalism and democracy. He shows that technology has made capitalism different from what was envisioned in the Age of Enlightenment. Technology creates centers of market power and monopoly concentration that result in a society in which some people are enriched immensely while many workers’ livelihoods are often destroyed. Contrary to conventional thinking, technological competition does not remove market power, which becomes a permanent fixture of free-market capitalism. Such private power creates political inequality and generates forces that cause democracy’s decline and possible destruction.
Applying these ideas to the US, Kurz shows that today’s problems begin in the 1980s with the policy of unregulated free-market capitalism. Coupled with…
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