Why read The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution?

Book cover of The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy

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A bold call to reclaim an American tradition that argues the Constitution imposes a duty on government to fight oligarchy and ensure broadly shared wealth.

Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the…

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1 author picked The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Richard R. Weiner

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Countering a drifting away from an appreciation of the demos, the book encourages us to build a democratic constitutional political economy that renews traditions of egalitarianism and social rights rather than the recent neoliberalism’s imagined market-based orientation of freedom alone.

I like the way the book revives the American constitutional tradition of discourse emphasizing how constraint of the concentration of wealth is necessary to preserve a democratic republic.

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