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100 1 $aMarquand, David,$eauthor.
245 10 $aMammon's kingdom :$ban essay on Britain, now /$cDavid Marquand.
264 1 $aLondon :$bAllen Lane,$c2014.
300 $a275 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Hedonism trumps honour -- Amnesia conquers history -- The market state invades the public realm -- From fate to choice, and back again -- Charismatic populism smothers democratic debate -- Who do we think we are?
520 $aThe follies and failures of bankers, regulators and governments have loomed large in public debate over the past five years. In this passionate and hard-hitting book, David Marquand digs deeper. At the heart of our predicament, he argues, lies a profound crisis of our moral economy, our public culture and our democracy. The empire of money has grown remorselessly for three decades, narrowing the space for a common life without which democratic institutions are empty shells. Increasingly, worth is equated with wealth and greed is thought to be good. Inequality has soared as a narrow elite of the super-rich has raced away from the rest of us. Humiliation at the bottom of the pile is matched by callous indifference at the top. Marquand's message is plain: we cannot go on as we are. He sets out the framework of a new public philosophy, based on the values of stewardship, democratic dialogue, civic engagement and freedom from humiliation, to spring the trap into which we have stumbled.--$cFrom the publisher's website.
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