Private Power and Democracy's Decline - by Mordecai Kurz (Paperback)

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Book Synopsis Why unregulated free-market capitalism endangers democracy--and what to do about it. In Private Power and Democracy's Decline , Mordecai Kurz explores the relationship between free-market capitalism and democracy. He shows that technology has made capitalism different from what was envisioned in the Age of Enlightenment. Technology creates centers of market power and monopoly concentration that result in a society in which some people are enriched immensely while many workers' livelihoods are often destroyed. Contrary to conventional thinking, technological competition does not remove market power, which becomes a permanent fixture of free-market capitalism. Such private power…