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Diana Mutz examines @RobertTalisse's arguments regarding democracy and polarization in his new book Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance.
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Eduardo Martinez discusses @RobertTalisse's new book Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance with @OxUniPress: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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A new paper by Wolfgang Streeck examines the nature of expertise in capitalist democracies: "A capitalist economy is a political economy that requires an – always fragile – political settlement between capital and labour, one that needs to be renegotiated on a current basis in the light of changing relations of power between the classes. To the extent that this requires expertise, it is the expertise of political practitioners, not of economists.": tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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In a new review of Francois Godard's book Germany, France, and Postwar Democratic Capitalism: Expert Rule, @Harvard's Peter Hall gives his view of technocracy: "I side with William F. Buckley who famously said that he would rather be governed by a random sample of people drawn from the Boston phonebook than by the Harvard faculty. And, on that point, I know what I am talking about." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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🆕 Are competitive markets economic analogues to scientific experiments? A new paper by Sam DeCanio and Colin Jennings applies arguments from studies of causal inference to understand competition and the problems created by monopoly power. More 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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