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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... competition rather than subsidized and protected, yielded a harmonious and fruitful system of public-benefiting behavior that created an ''opulent'' society. And he planned to do all this with an analytical, scientific method, which he ...
... competition is always forcing the market price down to the natural price. Consequently, if the market is allowed to operate unhindered, its inner principle of competition will compel prices to fall to a minimum and supply to rise to a ...
... competition.≤∫ Thus the lessons that most readers took away from Smith were not ambiguous. By demonstrating that national wealth consisted of goods, not money, Smith had exposed a central assumption of mercantilism as dangerous ...
... competition, and the free market became, and have remained, fundamental American values. Americans, however, have not always realized that these values can sometimes contradict one another. republicanism. For some time, beginning in the ...
... competition could be structured so as to transform self-interest into public-spirited behavior. The evidence that Madison was applying Smith to politics must be indirect. Learned men of the era had not yet adopted the modern habit of ...
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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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