Democracy at Risk
Subtitle: Rescuing Main Street from Wall Street
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: April 10, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780738204833
Subjects: Development economics; Economic theory & philosophy; Political structures: democracy; Public Policy - Economic Policy; General; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Business/Economics; USA; Economic Conditions; Government - U.S. Government; Political Science-Economic Conditions; Political Science-Public Policy - Economic Policy
First sentence: it operates within rules set by the very visible hand of democracy. The challenge lies in how to write the rules so that the market works well for as many people as possible without impairing its capacity for creativity and prosperity and without damaging the natural world.