Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads (eBook)

Technological Change and the Future of Politics

Carles Boix (Autor)

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2019
272 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19184-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Carles Boix is the Robert Garrett Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and director of the Institutions and Political Economy Research Group at the University of Barcelona. His books include Political Order and Inequality and Democracy and Redistribution. He lives in Princeton and Barcelona. Twitter @boixserra

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An incisive history of the changing relationship between democracy and capitalismThe twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative elections. Today, that political consensus appears to be breaking down, disrupted by polarization and income inequality, widespread dissatisfaction with democratic institutions, and insurgent populism. Tracing the history of democratic capitalism over the past two centuries, Carles Boix explains how we got here-and where we could be headed.Boix looks at three defining stages of capitalism, each originating in a distinct time and place with its unique political challenges, structure of production and employment, and relationship with democracy. He begins in nineteenth-century Manchester, where factory owners employed unskilled laborers at low wages, generating rampant inequality and a restrictive electoral franchise. He then moves to Detroit in the early 1900s, where the invention of the modern assembly line shifted labor demand to skilled blue-collar workers. Boix shows how growing wages, declining inequality, and an expanding middle class enabled democratic capitalism to flourish. Today, however, the information revolution that began in Silicon Valley in the 1970s is benefitting the highly educated at the expense of the traditional working class, jobs are going offshore, and inequality has risen sharply, making many wonder whether democracy and capitalism are still compatible.Essential reading for these uncertain times, Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads proposes sensible policy solutions that can help harness the unruly forces of capitalism to preserve democracy and meet the challenges that lie ahead.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.5.2019
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: abstention • Adobe • Assembly Line • barriers to entry • blue-collar worker • Calculation • Capitalism • Centre-right politics • Competition • Corporatism • Crony Capitalism • Dani Rodrik • Democracy • Democratic Capitalism • Democratization • developed country • Division of Labour • Economic Growth • Economic Inequality • Economic Policy • Economics • Economic sector • economist • economy • Election • Elite • Employment • far-right politics • Full employment • Globalization • Great Recession • Guaranteed minimum income • Harvard University • Human Capital • income • income distribution • Industrial Organization • industrial worker • Industry • Institution • Intel • Investment • John Maynard Keynes • Kathleen Thelen • labor demand • laborer • left-wing politics • Liberalism • luddite • Manufacturing • Market Economy • Mass production • Measures of national income and output • Mechanization • middle class • Mixed Economy • North America • of education • Oligarchy • percentage • Percentage point • percentile • Personal Computer • Political Party • Politician • Politics • Populism • Poverty • Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies • Productivity • progressive tax • right-wing politics • salary • secondary education • Seminar • Silicon Valley • Skilled Labor • Suffrage • Tax • Technological Change • technological revolution • Technology • The End of Ideology • Trade-off • Trade Union • Unemployment • Unemployment benefits • Universal Suffrage • University of Barcelona • Voting • wage • Wealth • welfare • Welfare State • Workforce • Workforce productivity • Working Class • World Economy • Yale University • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19184-0 / 0691191840
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19184-3 / 9780691191843