The End of Protest: How Free-Market Capitalism Learned to Control Dissent (Cornell Selects)

Synopsis

Tracing The Histories Of Economic Unrest In The United States And Great Britain From The Nineteenth Century To The Present, The End Of Protest Shows That Governments Have Always Been Preoccupied With The Task Of Controlling Dissent Over Free Market Policies. But Today's Methods Pose A New Threat To Democratic Values. For The Moment, Advocates Of Free-market Capitalism Have Found Ways Of Controlling Discontent, But The Continued Effectiveness Of These Strategies Is By No Means Certain-- Schumpeter's Paradox -- Controlling Disorder In The First Liberal Age -- The Market Comes Back -- The New Method Of Controlling Disorder -- The End Of Crowd Politics. Alasdair Roberts. Includes Bibliographical References.