Economy for and Against Democracy

Economy for and Against DemocracyPolitical constitutions alone do not guarantee democracy; a degree of economic equality is also essential. Yet contemporary economies, dominated as they are by global finance and political rent seekers, often block the realization of democracy. The comparative essays and case studies of this volume examine the contradictory relationship between the economy and democracy and highlight the struggles and visions needed to make things more equitable. They

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that Chinese society in early Hong Kong had coherence and continuity

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master theater historian Kurt Gänzl draws on his vast knowledge of the productions

who was arrested by the Gestapo in Venice in 1944 and incarcerated at Dachau

Troubling Play is a new and illuminating interpretation of Plato's Parmenides-notoriously the most difficult of the dialogues

a fourth-century Christian who relates her visit to Mt

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