Political Capitalism: How Economic and Political Power Is Made and Maintained

ISBN-13: 9781108449908 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str.

Randall G. Holcombe

Opis

Explains why government policies favor elites over the masses, building on well-established theories from the social sciences.

Recenzje

'For a century, political rhetoric has been constructed around a left-right axis that contrasts markets and states. Randall G. Holcombe explains that this conventional axis is no longer meaningful because we now inhabit a world of political capitalism where politics and economics are thoroughly entangled and inseparable.' Richard E. Wagner, George Mason University, Virginia

Spis treści

1. The concept of political capitalism; 2. Political capitalism as an economic system; 3. The political and economic elite; 4. Interest groups and political exchange; 5. Political creation of economic rents; 6. Transitional gains and rent extraction; 7. The regulatory state; 8. Capitalism versus democracy; 9. The institutional evolution of political capitalism; 10. Public policy and political capitalism; 11. Is political capitalism inevitable?