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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... principles of political legitimacy. Among the principles, those cohering into the system of beliefs and values that history has termed liberalism were the most important. Liberalism's greatest spokesman had been John Locke, whose Second ...
... principles at work in economic life if he abstracts away the details of reality and situates his economic actors in an ideal, imaginary economy. He creates, in other words, a state of nature, although he does not use the phrase. Smith ...
... principles so as to distort his teaching in systematic ways. Among the several tendencies of this distortion, the most important for our purposes was to overemphasize the importance of the free market and underemphasize the need to ...
... principles for which Americans supposedly fought the Revolution and the realities of human bondage, it might have been expected that there would have arisen a serious antislavery movement in the North. It did not happen in the founding ...
... principles: The great desideratum in Government is such a modification of the Sovereignty as will render it su≈ciently neutral between the di√erent interests and factions, to controul one part of the Society from invading the rights ...
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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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