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1 online resource |
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Chicago studies in practices of meaning |
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Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
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| Contents |
Finance and Marx -- Market liquidity and financial power -- Trauma or injustice -- Is justice an option? -- Justice as an option -- Can capitalism short iItself? -- Funding justice -- Conclusion -- Afterword: Spring 2020 |
| Summary |
More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers bore the burden of bailing out "too big to fail" banks, but got nothing in return. Inequality has soared, and a populist backlash against elites has shaken the foundations of our political order. Meanwhile, financial capitalism seems more entrenched than ever. What is the left to do? Justice Is an Option uses those problems-and the framework of finance that created them-to reimagine historical justice. Robert Meister returns to the spirit of Marx to diagnose our current age of finance. Instead of closing our eyes to the political and economic realities of our era, we need to grapple with them head-on. Meister does just that, asking whether the very tools of finance that have created our vastly unequal world could instead be made to serve justice and equality. Meister here formulates nothing less than a democratic financial theory for the twenty-first century-one that is equally conversant in political philosophy, Marxism, and contemporary politics. Justice Is an Option is a radical, invigorating first page of a new-and sorely needed-leftist playbook |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Debt -- Political aspects -- United States
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Finance, Public -- United States.
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Liquidity (Economics)
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Marxian economics.
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Social justice.
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Social Justice
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
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Finance, Public
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Liquidity (Economics)
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Marxian economics
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Social justice
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
022673451X |
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9780226734514 |
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022670288X |
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022673448X |
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9780226702889 |
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9780226734484 |
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