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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... thinking in the three areas, but also historical, philosophical, and journalistic writing. I have tried to translate a variety of discourses into one that is a common denominator for all of them, and this must inevitably consist of my ...
... thinking in American history. The discourse of natural law is a form of argument that identifies certain facts about the nature of physical reality, relates them to human life, and explicitly or implicitly infers moral rules from them ...
... thinking in the social sciences and humanities. These philosophers, and the methodologists influenced by them, reject the ''foundational'' assumption that there is an objective world beyond the human mind and that it is the job of the ...
... thinking cannot be understood without an understanding of its world context. The foreigners I do discuss, however, are important because their ideas influenced American thinkers. Tocqueville is significant because his ideas have ...
... thinking for them. I am not the only one who has been given that impression. James Morone has complained in print about the way ''the Tocquevillean views have petrified into assumptions,'' and James McWilliams has concurred that ...
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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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