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The gardens of democracy: a new American story of citizenship, the economy, and the role of government

By Liu , Nick , Eric;Hanauer

Book information

Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Year
2011
ISBN
9781570618437, 9781299655768, 1299655769, 1570618437
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
689 kB (705761 bytes)
Pages
(173 pages) : illustrations\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Essays;POLITICAL SCIENCE--Gover

Description

Argues that in contrast to the eighteenth-century concept of society as a predictable machine, twenty-first century American democracy needs to be viewed as a series of complex, interrelated systems capable of coming up with adaptive solutions to its problems.;Seeds: gardenbrain vs. machinebrain -- Self-interest: true self-interest is mutual interest -- Great citizenship: society becomes how you behave -- True capitalism: we're all better off when we're all better off -- Self-government: big what, small how -- Harvest: we reap what we sow.

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