The Poverty of Statism
Author | : Nikolaĭ Bukharin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nikolaĭ Bukharin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1984-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780877006329 |
Author | : Joshua Kurlantzick |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2016-03-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199385726 |
The end of the Cold War ushered in an age of American triumphalism best characterized by the "Washington Consensus:" the idea that free markets, democratic institutions, limitations on government involvement in the economy, and the rule of law were the foundations of prosperity and stability. The last fifteen years, starting with the Asian financial crisis, have seen the gradual erosion of that consensus. Many commentators have pointed to the emergence of a powerful new rival model: state capitalism. In state capitalist regimes, the government typically owns firms in strategic industries. Not beholden to private-sector shareholders, such firms are allowed to operate with razor-thin margins if the state deems them strategically important. China, soon to be the world's largest economy, is the best known state capitalist regime, but it is hardly the only one. In State Capitalism, Joshua Kurlantzick ranges across the world--China, Thailand, Brazil, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and more--and argues that the increase in state capitalism across the globe has, on balance, contributed to a decline in democracy. He isolates some of the reasons for state capitalism's resurgence: the fact that globalization favors economies of scale in the most critical industries, and the widespread rejection of the Washington Consensus in the face of the problems that have plagued the world economy in recent years. That said, a number of democratic nations have embraced state capitalism, and in those regimes, state-backed firms like Brazil's Embraer have enjoyed considerable success. Kurlantzick highlights the mixed record and the evolving nature of the model, yet he is more concerned about the negative effects of state capitalism. When states control firms, whether in democratic or authoritarian regimes, the government increases its advantage over the rest of society. The combination of new technologies, the perceived failures of liberal economics and democracy in many developing nations, the rise of modern kinds of authoritarians, and the success of some of the best-known state capitalists have created an era ripe for state intervention. State Capitalism offers the sharpest analysis yet of what state capitalism's emergence means for democratic politics around the world.
Author | : Martin Gilens |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2009-05-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226293661 |
Tackling one of the most volatile issues in contemporary politics, Martin Gilens's work punctures myths and misconceptions about welfare policy, public opinion, and the role of the media in both. Why Americans Hate Welfare shows that the public's views on welfare are a complex mixture of cynicism and compassion; misinformed and racially charged, they nevertheless reflect both a distrust of welfare recipients and a desire to do more to help the "deserving" poor. "With one out of five children currently living in poverty and more than 100,000 families with children now homeless, Gilens's book is must reading if you want to understand how the mainstream media have helped justify, and even produce, this state of affairs." —Susan Douglas, The Progressive "Gilens's well-written and logically developed argument deserves to be taken seriously." —Choice "A provocative analysis of American attitudes towards 'welfare.'. . . [Gilens] shows how racial stereotypes, not white self-interest or anti-statism, lie at the root of opposition to welfare programs." -Library Journal
Author | : Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Richard Bellamy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2019-01-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107022282 |
Examines the democratic legitimacy of international organisations from a republican perspective, diagnoses the EU as suffering from a democratic disconnect and offers 'demoicracy' as the cure.
Author | : Alberto D. Cimadamore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Economic assistance |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael Dahlen |
Publisher | : Hillcrest Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2016-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1634138503 |
Statism denotes any system of big government, a government that gains power at the expense of individual freedom, a government that uses its power to redistribute wealth and regulate the economy. Laissez-faire capitalism, by contrast, is the system of limited government, the system of economic and political freedom. It is a system that has created more wealth and lifted more people out of poverty than any other system. Yet it is relentlessly demonized. We are told that the free market is impractical--prone to crises, depressions, and coercive monopolies. Michael Dahlen dispels these and many other myths. He shows that a laissez-faire capitalist system is not only practical; he shows that it is moral, as it is the only system that recognizes each individual's inalienable right to his own life. A provocative weave of history, philosophy, and political economy, Ending Big Government: The Essential Case for Capitalism and Freedom, shows that capitalism is incontestably superior to statism.
Author | : E. P. P. Thompson |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 1978-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1583675345 |
This classic collection of essays by E.P. Thompson, one of England’s most renowned socialist voices, remains a staple text in the history of Marxist theory. The bulk of the book is dedicated to Thompson’s famous polemic against Louis Althusser and what he considers the reductionism and authoritarianism of Althusserian structuralism. In lively and erudite prose, Thompson argues for a self-critical and unapologetically humanist Marxist tradition. Also included are three essays of considerable importance to the development of the New Left.
Author | : Henry Hazlitt |
Publisher | : Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Labor unions |
ISBN | : 1610164121 |