The Power of Money: A Political-Economic Analysis with Special Emphasis on the American Economic SystemState University of New York Press, 30 de jun. de 1980 - 418 páginas Money is both a vibrant, dynamic material substance and a social force that permeates industrial societies in their entirety. Yet significant aspects of how money works in society are concealed by myths, dogmas, and misperceptions. In The Power of Money Henry Bretton focuses on how money works in a democracy. He contends that the well-being of political democracy depends on a fuller understanding of the centrality of money in politics, and he presents his ideas on monetary policy, corruption and reform, banking and politics, private power within a democracy, money in international relations, and the system-destroying effects of money. Bretton considers the subject of money and democracy in the context of how monetarization of societies proceeded form antiquity to the Industrial Revolution, and he analyzes the formative years of the United States in terms of being based on political ideas that did not take account of monetarization. He reviews what social theorists and economists from Aristotle to Friedman have thought about the role of money in society and how it affects individual behavior and social norms. The link between economics and politics has been only partially explored, he contends, and he sees the major task for social scientists as developing a fuller integration of the two mainstreams of social theory, the political and the economic. |
Conteúdo
Introduction | 8 |
The Dawn of the NationState the Industrial Revolution and the Rise | 11 |
The Formative Years | 27 |
the National | 40 |
From Aristotle to Marx | 51 |
Karl Marx Money and Political Democracy | 70 |
The Marxian Money Metamorphosis | 74 |
From Walras to Friedman | 79 |
Many Proposals Few Results | 200 |
Monetarization and Individual Behavior | 216 |
Calibrating the Individuals Worth | 223 |
Area of Consonance | 229 |
The Public Fund and its Uses | 237 |
Area of Dissonance | 241 |
The Expanding Monetary Universe | 252 |
The Expanding Monetary Universe | 253 |
The Modern Era | 89 |
LesserKnown Theoreticians | 97 |
The NonEconomists | 105 |
Sociology | 117 |
Simmels Variation of Marxs Percpetion | 119 |
Religious Philosophy and the Church | 124 |
History | 133 |
Purpose and Outcome | 142 |
Monetary Policy | 146 |
Changing or Maintaining the Political Order | 154 |
Money Politics and Public Office | 164 |
Types of Political Conduct Involving Money | 166 |
Methods | 170 |
Moneys Power and Influence Potential | 175 |
Banking Politics and Public Office | 180 |
Interlocking Directionships among 13 Large US Corporations | 182 |
Corruption Conflict of Interest and Reform | 186 |
Specific Effects on Democratic Society | 265 |
The Democratic Legal System | 272 |
Separation of Powers | 278 |
Control and Influence Structure in Theory | 282 |
Control and Influence as it Actually Operates | 283 |
Turnout of Eligible Voters in Presidential and Congressional Elections 18681976 | 286 |
Discovering and Articulating the Public Interest | 291 |
The Electoral Process | 301 |
Campaign Spending | 302 |
Political Behavior | 309 |
The PolicyMaking Process | 317 |
EPILOGUE | 327 |
Rethinking the Theory of Political Democracy | 335 |
Appendix | 346 |
Bibliography | 395 |
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