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Mar 11, 2020 · Democracy and capitalism coexist in many variations around the world, each continuously reshaped by the conditions and the people forming them. Increasingly, people have deep concerns about both.
Jul 10, 2021 · More recently, Slobodian argues that the entire neoliberal system of international institutions set up since the 1950s has served to protect capitalism against democracy: the entire “neoliberal project focused on designing institutions–not to liberate markets but to encase them, to inoculate capitalism against the threat of democracy” (Slobodian 2018, 2). For many on the left of the ...
Dec 31, 2023 · Abstract. Since the beginning of the neoliberal era, it has been argued that there was a correlation between democracy and capitalism, and a strong democracy could ensure capitalist development and increase welfare. Thus, M. Friedman’s (1912–2006) especially discussed democracy and capitalism as coexisting systems in Capitalism and Freedom ...
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Coined by the prevailing market principles in the relationship between different companies, this type was dominant in Europe and North America throughout much of the nineteenth century. State institutions in this context largely refrained from interfering in markets (including labor markets), and economic and social policy (Berend and Schubert 2007...
Within the context of technological and organizational innovations, capitalism developed internal needs for coordination and regulation. Moreover, a barely regulated form of capitalism resulted in increasing social tensions. Together, these two factors were the driving force behind a more organized form of capitalism. This became visible on several...
Since the late 1970s, “neoliberal” critique has gained traction, sometimes in sharp contrast to Keynesian welfare state capitalism. It stressed market mechanisms, the principle of capitalist self-regulation and the limits of state regulation (Harvey 2007). John Maynard Keynes’s concept of managing capitalism through the demand side and Karl Polanyi...
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Aug 30, 2016 · Humans must be viewed as agents, not just as objects of other people’s power. Yet it is also easy to identify tensions between democracy and capitalism. Democracy is egalitarian. Capitalism is ...
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Harvard University 27 Kirkland Street Cambridge MA 02138. phall@fas.harvard.edu. July 2021. ocracy, growth regimes, representation, political economyAbstractThis paper argues that the relationship between capitalism and democracy is not immutable but subject to changes over time best understood.
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Jul 7, 2011 · The modern study of capitalism as an economic system has also taken an institutionalist turn, building on transaction costs economics rather than neoclassical models. The “varieties of capitalism” approach, in particular, illuminates the relationship between redistributive politics and economic performance and helps explain why there is no necessary contradiction between state and market.
