The Return of the State: And Why it is Essential for our Health, Wealth and Happiness - Tapa dura

Garrard, Graeme

 
9780300256758: The Return of the State: And Why it is Essential for our Health, Wealth and Happiness
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ISBN 10: 0300256752 ISBN 13: 9780300256758
Editorial: Yale University Press, 2022

Sinopsis

A vigorous and timely defense of the state as a force for good

For decades now wealth and power have been shifting from states to markets. This experiment has been a failure for all but a privileged few. But this trend is beginning to reverse, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seen the state play the most direct and positive role in citizens’ everyday lives in living memory.

Graeme Garrard makes a powerful case for the state as our only realistic hope of countering the rising power of multinational corporations, organized crime, and international organizations that will always put their own interests first. Today the state is essential to the health and welfare of everyone except the rich and powerful. Yet it is being rolled back and whittled away, leaving the well-being of most of us at the mercy of unaccountable private powers that are increasingly free from external control. As Garrard shows, the state is the only realistic way of promoting the public good in our time.

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Acerca del autor

Graeme Garrard is a reader in politics at Cardiff University. He is the author of Rousseau’s Counter-Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenments, and coauthor of How to Think Politically.

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Editorial
Yale University Press
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0300256752
ISBN 13 
9780300256758
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Número de páginas
240
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