The American Ideology : A Critique.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Left, Right and Center -- The American Ideology -- A Democratic Alternative -- About this Book -- 1. Reason -- The Idea of Reason -- The Death of Socrates -- Is Reason Bad for the Oppressed? -- 2. Ideology -- Natural Selection -- The Spirit of Capitalism -- The Protestant Ethic -- An Optimal Ethic -- Weber's Lead -- Protestant Ethic versus American Ideology -- 3. Means-Ends Rationality -- The Individual and Society -- The New Science -- Hobbesian Sovereignty -- Optimality -- Utilitarianism -- Efficiency -- Macrolevel Consequences of Microlevel -- 4. The Invisible Hand -- Smith Was (Partly) Right -- Market Socialism -- Information Deficits -- Shades of Hayek -- Externalities -- Market Incompetences -- Competition -- Economies of Scale -- Conclusion -- 5. Efficiency as Ideology -- Efficiency and the Soviet Model -- Problems of Planned Economies -- Market Solutions? -- Efficiency Reified -- Who Benefits? -- A Vicious Circle -- 6. The Reasonable -- Liberalism -- From Tolerance to Neutrality -- The Neutral and the Reasonable -- Social Unity -- Reasonableness -- 7. Deliberative Democracy -- Collective Choice -- Rousseauean Theories -- Proceduralism -- Rousseau Without the General Will -- Implementation -- Must We Retract Democracy In Order to Save It? -- Conclusion -- 8. Which Way Forward? -- Deweyan Reconstruction -- Democratizing the Economic Sphere -- Reconstructing Rawls -- What Is To Be Done? -- Notes -- Index.

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