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本书是《激进市场》一书的英文版,讨论社会、政治、经济三者的关系。
内容简介
21世纪的今天,资本主义再一次面对着历史的拷问。我们没有迎来历史终结,而是华盛顿共识破产,自由市场带来了更多的不平等与经济危机。长期的经济停滞与不平等困扰着主要西方国家,在财政干预与货币放水的手段都不能带来新的增长后,一些年轻的经济学家将思路转向了资本主义的本质,市场与产权制度本身。
产权是私有制的基础,但是它也造成了垄断与市场的失灵,资源配置的无效,也是不平等与。而当代经济学的主流观点认为,产权与市场机制是密不可分的。可两位作者却独辟蹊径,从19世纪的理论中找到了武器,重组设计一种没有产权的市场,以竞价机制破解垄断与集中。
作者以这套平等自由主义经济模型,针对当今经济制度的五大痛点,分别设计对应的模型。
地产税的竞拍模式。实现居者享其屋,告别高房价与地产投机;赋予选举议题以权重,允许每个投票者以问题紧要权重投票,从而破解一人一票的“乌合之众”式选举;允许劳动力的全球化自由流动。全球化带来了发达国家的失业,产业的转移,但问题的本质是只允许资本自由跨国移动,但不允许劳动者自由移动的现行体制,新的制度设计可以改变这一切。
金融机构拥有越来越大的权力,他们左右了美国的政治,并为普通民众带来了无数的经济灾难,需要以一种更为分散的方式来破解金融垄断。
大数据的兴起让互联网巨头可以窥视我们的隐私,并以此作为筹码来利用我们的弱点谋求高额利润。数据生产其实也是一种劳动,我们作为数据的产生者是有权利分享其带来的果实的。
目录
- COPYRIGHT
- Radical Markets
- More praise for RADICAL MARKETS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PREFACE The Auction Will Set You Free
- Auctions as Radical Markets
- Rio for Sale: A Thought Experiment
- Radical Heroes
- FOREWORD
- Introduction
- Inequality
- Stagnation
- Conflict
- The Markets and Their Discontents
- The Rules of a True Market
- Perfect Competition: Opium of the Elites
- Imagining Radical Markets
- 1 Property Is Monopoly
- Capitalism and Freedom, or Capitalism and Monopoly?
- Central Planning, Corporate Planning
- Markets without Property
- The Battle for the Soul of "Socialism"
- Competitive by Design
- Name Your Price—and Your Tax
- Brass Tacks
- Killing a Flock of Birds with One Tax
- Optimizing Public Leases
- A True Market Economy
- Optimal Buddhism and a Just Commonwealth
- 2 Radical Democracy
- Origins of Democracy
- The Rise and the Limits of Democracy
- THE UNITED STATES
- FRANCE AND THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT
- BRITAIN
- Radicalizing Democracy
- MARKETS FOR COLLECTIVE DECISIONS
- Quadratic Voting
- QV in the Wild
- POLLING AND MARKET RESEARCH
- RATING AND SOCIAL AGGREGATION
- BROADER APPLICATIONS
- Democracy Squared
- MULTI-CANDIDATE, SINGLE-WINNER ELECTIONS
- REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY
- NATURE OF CURRENCY AND SCOPE OF TRADE
- A Radical Market for Reasoned Compromise
- 3 Uniting the World's Workers
- The Origins of Free Trade
- Before Migration Mattered
- Globalization
- The Migration Imperative
- Why Not Just Expand Existing Migration?
- Auctioning Visas?
- Democratizing Visas
- INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORTS
- Could VIP Work?
- An Internationalism of People
- 4 Dismembering the Octopus
- The Monopolist with a Thousand Faces
- Acephalous Cephalopods
- Effortless Capitalism
- What's Wrong with Indexing?
- Restoring Competition
- GOVERNANCE
- DIVERSIFICATION
- Law on Our Side
- Beyond Monopolies
- 5 Data as Labor
- The Rise of "Data Work"
- Factories for "Thinking" Machines
- Sirens and Titans
- Diamonds in the Rough
- Technofeudalism
- Digital Whitewash
- Workers' Struggle
- A Penny for Your Thoughts
- A Radical Market in Data Labor
- Conclusion
- Economy
- Politics
- The Global Stage
- Society
- Beyond Our Sketch
- A Square Deal
- EPILOGUE After Markets?
- Markets as Miracles
- Markets as Parallel Processors
- Markets as Antiquated Computers?
- Can Computers Plan You?
- AFTERWORD
- INDEX
- A NOTE ON THE TYPE
出版方
普林斯顿大学出版社
普林斯顿大学出版社成立于1905年,是一家与普林斯顿大学有着紧密合作关系的非营利出版机构。出版经过严格同行评议的书籍,致力于联结不同领域的作者和读者,以促进和丰富全球范围内跨文化的对话与交流。出版社在出版方面奉行最高的学术标准、包容性以及多样性。 普林斯顿大学出版社的书籍获奖无数,包括六次普利策奖,五次班克罗夫特奖,三次美国国家图书奖,以及数百个学术机构颁发的重量级奖项。数十位普林斯顿大学出版社的作者曾荣获各类世界上最负盛名的学术奖项,包括诺贝尔奖、菲尔兹奖和霍尔伯格奖。