The master's tools: how finance wrecked democracy (and a radical plan to rebuild it)

By:

McCarthy, Michael A

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Verso 2025Description: xiv, 257 pISBN:

9781788730662

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

332 MCC

Summary: Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master's Tools, award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer can be found in the flows of credit and investment bound up with finance capital. Today, finance guides and constrains our politics, but there is no reason why this must be so. In this groundbreaking work, McCarthy develops a political and social theory of institutional transformation rooted in the interconnectedness of finance and democracy. Inspired by ancient Athens, where small groups chosen by lottery were used to ensure democratic participation, he shows how democracy and working-class power can be strengthened by introducing new forms of financial governance, focusing on the inclusion of historically excluded groups. His proposals for democratic financial institutions point the way to imbuing finance with a socio-environmental purpose and the funding of a just green transition, social housing, and other necessary public goods. And these financial institutions might be the first step toward a whole new kind of economy. (https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/755-the-master-s-tools?srsltid=AfmBOooeEHJJYEECvaTNPG68Z-luEXMZQcWl9VydFVPBgrCOX3fsp7T1)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Finance & Accounting	332 MCC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		009217

Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master's Tools, award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer can be found in the flows of credit and investment bound up with finance capital.
Today, finance guides and constrains our politics, but there is no reason why this must be so. In this groundbreaking work, McCarthy develops a political and social theory of institutional transformation rooted in the interconnectedness of finance and democracy.

Inspired by ancient Athens, where small groups chosen by lottery were used to ensure democratic participation, he shows how democracy and working-class power can be strengthened by introducing new forms of financial governance, focusing on the inclusion of historically excluded groups.

His proposals for democratic financial institutions point the way to imbuing finance with a socio-environmental purpose and the funding of a just green transition, social housing, and other necessary public goods. And these financial institutions might be the first step toward a whole new kind of economy.

(https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/755-the-master-s-tools?srsltid=AfmBOooeEHJJYEECvaTNPG68Z-luEXMZQcWl9VydFVPBgrCOX3fsp7T1)

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