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Making Capital Democratic: A Reconstruction of State, Credit, and Finance

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The “software” that structures our financial system and, through it, our broader economy is made up of certain basic concepts that guide how we think and hence act. These concepts include money, credit, finance, investment, and – above all – capital. This conceptual software manifests itself in our current “operating system” of institutions and practices. But our concepts and the system itself are radically out of date both as representations of monetary, financial, productive, and distributive reality and thus as realizations of democratically productive potential. Robert Hockett shows that this mismatch has serious consequences and argues that it’s time for a complete overhaul of our economic understanding.
 
The underlying conceptual problem, Hockett contends, is that we miss the extent to which our financial systems are deeply and ineradicably public. Money is an inherent emanation of our basic social contract; capital in turn emerges as almost entirely publicly generated. Our systems of finance and investment must therefore be publicly and democratically determined. Leaving them in the hands of private powers means resigning ourselves to current health and income inequalities, evermore frequent financial crises, and economic stagnation and decline – to say nothing of social and political deterioration across the developed world.
 
Lucid and passionately argued, Making Capital Democratic is a seamless blend of philosophy and economics that calls for profound intellectual and institutional changes that would befit a democracy that is democratic in more than just name.
Συγγραφέας: Hockett Robert
Εκδότης: POLITY PRESS
Σελίδες: 208
ISBN: 9781509570058
Εξώφυλλο: Σκληρό Εξώφυλλο
Αριθμός Έκδοσης: 1
Έτος έκδοσης: 2025

Acknowledgments
List of Figures

Introduction: One Conflation, Two Separations
1 Our Polity
2 Our Money
3 Our Finance
4 Our Capital
5 Our Capital Commons
Conclusion: Our Republic, Our Capital, Our Productive Selves: Our Joint & Several ‘We’s Recovered

Notes
Index

Robert C. Hockett is Edward Cornell Professor of Law and Finance at Cornell University; a Visiting Professor of Finance at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business; and Senior Counsel at Westwood Capital, LLC. He is a regular advisor and legislative draftsman for Senators Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Marco Rubio, as well as for Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ro Khanna. Previously, he worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the International Monetary Fund, and clerked for the Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.

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