The Paradox of Democratic Capitalism: Politics and Economics in American ThoughtJHU Press, 25/08/2006 - 392 páginas A truly interdisciplinary enterprise, The Paradox of Democratic Capitalism examines the interplay of ideas about politics, economics, and law in American society from the pre-revolutionary era to the eve of the September 11 attacks. David F. Prindle argues that while the United States was founded on liberalism, there is constant tension between two ideals of the liberal tradition: capitalism and democracy. Tracing the rise of natural law doctrine from neoclassical economics, Prindle examines the influence of economic development in late medieval society on the emergence of classical liberalism in early America and likens that influence to the impact of orthodox economics on contemporary American society. Prindle also evaluates political, economic, and legal ideas through the lens of his own beliefs. He warns against the emerging extremes of liberal ideology in contemporary American politics, where the right's definition of capitalism excludes interference from democratic publics and the left's definition of democracy excludes a market-based economy. |
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Politics and Economics in American Thought David F. Prindle. One of my theses here is that both the scholars of consensus and the scholars of dissensus are partly right. My argument is that the American tradition of discourse about ...
... government. Legitimacy thus rested upon the free choice of the citizenry, making democracy the only legitimate form of government. Government had no authority over the citizens—Parliament had no power to tax the residents of the American ...
Politics and Economics in American Thought David F. Prindle. ing their lives and liberties; that of acquiring ... political ideas at least through the nineteenth century. Although Locke's arguments had triumphed in America by 1783 ...
Politics and Economics in American Thought David F. Prindle. mating egotistical striving could not but become the philosophy of the class that invested and pursued profit. Against his own intentions, therefore, Smith became the patron ...
Politics and Economics in American Thought David F. Prindle. the. liberal. vision. At the beginning of their collective history as a nation, Americans were not all liberals. Various other theories and perspectives challenged those of Locke ...
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3 Democracy and Capitalism 18191862 | 54 |
4 Industrialism and Its Discontents I 18621898 | 98 |
5 Industrialism and Its Discontents II 18981932 | 139 |
6 New Paradigms 19321974 | 178 |
7 Dissent 19321974 | 211 |
8 Democracy and Capitalism 19742001 | 236 |
9 Present and Future | 268 |
Notes | 297 |
Bibliography | 327 |
Index | 357 |
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