Law and the Wealth of Nations: Finance, Prosperity, and Democracy

Law and the Wealth of Nations: Finance, Prosperity, and Democracy

by Tamara Lothian
ISBN-10:
0231174675
ISBN-13:
9780231174671
Pub. Date:
12/03/2019
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10:
0231174675
ISBN-13:
9780231174671
Pub. Date:
12/03/2019
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Law and the Wealth of Nations: Finance, Prosperity, and Democracy

Law and the Wealth of Nations: Finance, Prosperity, and Democracy

by Tamara Lothian

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Overview

Economic stagnation, financial crisis, and increasing inequality have provoked worldwide debate about the reshaping of the market economy. But few are willing to risk a reorientation of dominant ideas and a reform of entrenched structures. Right-wing populism has stepped into the void created by a failure to imagine structural alternatives. Tamara Lothian offers a deeper view showing the path to the reconstruction of the economy in the service of both growth and inclusion. She probes the institutional innovations that would reignite economic growth by democratizing the market. Progressives have traditionally focused only on the demand side of the economy, abandoning the supply side to conservatives. Law and the Wealth of Nations offers a progressive approach to the supply side of the economy and proposes innovation in our fundamental economic arrangements.

Lothian begins by exploring how finance can serve broad-based economic growth rather than serving only itself. She goes on to show how the reform of finance can lead into the democratization of the economy. How, she asks, can we ensure that the most advanced, knowledge-intensive practices of production spread throughout the economy rather than remaining in the hands of the entrepreneurial and technological elite? How can we anchor greater economic equality and empowerment in the way we organize the economy rather than just trying to diminish inequalities after the fact by progressive taxation and entitlements? How can we revise legal thought and economic theory to develop the intellectual equipment that these tasks require? Law and the Wealth of Nations will appeal to all who are searching for ways to think practically about change in our economic and political institutions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780231174671
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 12/03/2019
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Tamara Lothian (1958-2016) wrote and taught widely in law and political economy after an early career in international finance. A companion volume, Finance and Democracy in America, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.

Table of Contents

A Note Regarding the Circumstance in Which This Book Is Published
Introduction
1. The Past and Future of American Finance Seen Through the Lens of Crisis
2. The Past and Future of Financial Reform: From Regulation to Reorganization
3. The Democratized Market Economy
4. The Democratized Market Economy in Latin America (and Elsewhere): An Exercise in Institutional Thinking Within Law and Political Economy
5. Economic Progress and Structural Vision
Appendix. Crisis, Slump, Superstition, and Recovery: Thinking and Acting Beyond Vulgar Keynesianism (with Roberto Mangabeira Unger)
Notes
Index
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