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Democracy against Domination K. Sabeel Rahman (Assistant Professor of Law, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School)

Democracy against Domination By K. Sabeel Rahman (Assistant Professor of Law, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School)

Summary

How do realize democratic values in a complex, deeply unequal modern economy and in the face of unresponsive governmental institutions? Drawing on Progressive Era thought and sparked by the real policy challenges of financial regulation, Democracy Against Domination offers a novel theory of democracy to answer these pressing questions.

Democracy against Domination Summary

Democracy against Domination by K. Sabeel Rahman (Assistant Professor of Law, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School)

In 2008, the collapse of the US financial system plunged the economy into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. In its aftermath, the financial crisis pushed to the forefront fundamental moral and institutional questions about how we govern the modern economy. What are the values that economic policy ought to prioritize? What institutions do we trust to govern complex economic dynamics? Much of popular and academic debate revolves around two competing approaches to these fundamental questions: laissez-faire defenses of self-correcting and welfare-enhancing markets on the one hand, and managerialist turns to the role of insulated, expert regulation in mitigating risks and promoting growth on the other. In Democracy Against Domination, K. Sabeel Rahman offers an alternative vision for how we should govern the modern economy in a democratic society. Drawing on a rich tradition of economic reform rooted in the thought and reform politics of early twentieth century progressives like John Dewey and Louis Brandeis, Rahman argues that the fundamental moral challenge of economic governance today is two-fold: first, to counteract the threats of economic domination whether in the form of corporate power or inequitable markets; and second, to do so by expanding the capacity of citizens themselves to exercise real political power in economic policymaking. This normative framework in turn suggests a very different way of understanding and addressing major economic governance issues of the post-crisis era, from the challenge of too-big-to-fail financial firms, to the dangers of regulatory capture and regulatory reform. Synthesizing a range of insights from history to political theory to public policy, Democracy Against Domination offers an exciting reinterpretation of progressive economic thought; a fresh normative approach to democratic theory; and an urgent hope for realizing a more equitable and democratically accountable economy through practical reforms in our policies and regulatory institutions.

Democracy against Domination Reviews

The author finds precedence for his interpretation in the writings of Louis Brandeis and John Dewey. Pragmatic regulation by democratically selected grassroots participants promises better outcomes than elite technocrats selected for their expertise... Highly Recommended. * R. S. Hewett (Drake University), Choice Reviews Vol 55. *

About K. Sabeel Rahman (Assistant Professor of Law, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School)

K. Sabeel Rahman is Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School.

Table of Contents

Preface 1. Democracy, Domination, and the Challenge of Economic Governance 2. Managerialism and the New Deal Legacy 3. The Progressive Critique of the Market 4. Economic Domination and Democratic Action 5. Structuring Democratic Agency 6. Anti-Domination as Regulatory Strategy 7. Democratic Agency as Regulatory Process 8. Democratic Freedom in the New Gilded Age Bibliography

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GOR008552301
9780190468538
019046853X
Democracy against Domination by K. Sabeel Rahman (Assistant Professor of Law, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School)
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Hardback
Oxford University Press Inc
2016-12-08
254
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