The American ideology : a critique /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2004
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| Series: | Paths for the 21st century.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Foreword; Introduction; Left, Right and Center; The American Ideology; A Democratic Alternative; About this Book; 1. Reason; The Idea of Reason; The Death of Socrates; Is Reason Bad for the Oppressed?; 2. Ideology; Natural Selection; The Spirit of Capitalism; The Protestant Ethic; An Optimal Ethic; Weber's Lead; Protestant Ethic versus American Ideology; 3. Means-Ends Rationality; The Individual and Society; The New Science; Hobbesian Sovereignty; Optimality; Utilitarianism; Efficiency.
- Macrolevel Consequences of Microlevel4. The Invisible Hand; Smith Was (Partly) Right; Market Socialism; Information Deficits; Shades of Hayek; Externalities; Market Incompetences; Competition; Economies of Scale; Conclusion; 5. Efficiency as Ideology; Efficiency and the Soviet Model; Problems of Planned Economies; Market Solutions?; Efficiency Reified; Who Benefits?; A Vicious Circle; 6. The Reasonable; Liberalism; From Tolerance to Neutrality; The Neutral and the Reasonable; Social Unity; Reasonableness; 7. Deliberative Democracy; Collective Choice; Rousseauean Theories; Proceduralism.
- Rousseau Without the General WillImplementation; Must We Retract Democracy In Order to Save It?; Conclusion; 8. Which Way Forward?; Deweyan Reconstruction; Democratizing the Economic Sphere; Reconstructing Rawls; What Is To Be Done?; Notes; Index.
