Title:
The gardens of democracy : a new American story of citizenship, the economy, and the role of government / Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer.
Author:
Liu, Eric.
Hanauer, Nick.
Publication Information:
Seattle, WA : Sasquatch Books, ©2011.
Call Number:
JK31 .L58 2011
Abstract:
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.
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ISBN:
9781570618239
Physical Description:
173 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Contents:
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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