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How Wealth Rules the World : Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property.

"Ben Price reveals that our Constitution and legal system were intentionally designed to give more rights to the wealthy propertied class than the rest of us and exposes how this hamstrings our ability to effectively address a host of pressing social and environmental problems--and what we can...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Price, Ben G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Incorporated, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction One Right to Rule Them All: The Dark Side of Property; 1. Property Is Not an Unalienable Right; 2. The Ongoing Counterrevolution; 3. Of Laws and Men; 4. The Emancipation of Property from Democracy; 5. The Municipal Colonies of America; 6. The New Three-Fifths Clause; 7. The Pretense of Representation; 8. Creditors and Cannibals; 9. Property's International Empire; Conclusion Community Rights Challenge the Dictatorship of Property; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; About the Author 
520 |a "Ben Price reveals that our Constitution and legal system were intentionally designed to give more rights to the wealthy propertied class than the rest of us and exposes how this hamstrings our ability to effectively address a host of pressing social and environmental problems--and what we can do about it. Many of today's most serious issues--homelessness, gun violence, fracking, prison privatization, predatory lending, and many more--resist resolution because the "rights of property" undermine the rights of people. Issues that undeniably affect whole communities are determined by the courts to relate primarily to property, contracts, and corporations and are removed from the public sphere and immunized from public governance. There's a reason for this. Ben Price tells the story of how the Federalists--the more conservative faction of the Founding Fathers--secretly drafted the Constitution as a counterrevolutionary document. It restored to the colonial 1 percent privileges overturned by the revolution, avoiding a popular backlash by bestowing rights on wealth itself, rather than creating a British-style personal aristocracy. These rights of property deprive the majority of their ability to self-govern and weaponize government in ways that let the "minority of the opulent" (in James Madison's phrase) use the Constitution to block local policies that compete with their interests. Price details often shocking examples of how the supposedly unalienable rights of individuals and communities are blithely disregarded. But he also describes how over 200 communities have drafted their own bills of rights that push back against the primacy of property and how we all can join this struggle to return America to what the revolutionary generation intended"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
520 |a "Most Americans think of homeownership as the pathway to the middle class and the bedrock of American prosperity, but under the surface, the right to own private property is actually the system that most powerfully upholds inequality and an elite, untouchable upper class"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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