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
K. Sabeel Rahman is Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School.
"The ultimate failure of economic regulation, the author argues,
derives from viewing the market's problems as technical problems,
to be solved by experts, rather than problems of political
domination to be solved by altering democratic institutions. 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. Summing Up: Highly
recommended." --CHOICE
"The financial crisis prompted arcane debates about regulatory
reform and much public outrage, but little rethinking of how
citizens can have a voice in governing the economy - until now.
Sabeel Rahman criticizes the managerial, technocratic approach to
regulation and offers a morally robust, democratic alternative. The
most important book about democracy and the regulatory state since
the financial crisis." --Michael Sandel, author of *
"The gods endowed Sabeel Rahman with a democratic soul. Ordinary
citizens need not give over the regulatory state to managers and
experts. We can combat concentrated power and remoteness from
government by boldly redesigning the scale and scope of
institutions. Rahman shows that these ideas have deep American
roots, and that citizens can own crucial policy decisions, starting
right now." --Nancy L. Rosenblum, author of
"Sabeel Rahman is a new, bold, and original voice in the fields of
law, history, and political economy. This book brilliantly heeds
Walt Whitman's prophetic call in Democratic Vistas for 'a
force-infusion of intellect' to confront 'the dominant play of
solely materialistic bearings upon current life in the United
States.' --William J. Novak, author of
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