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Tocqueville is a free trader, but unlike today’s free traders, he doesn’t think free trade means immunity from government regulations. Why? Because he saw that people are at risk of death and poor health if corporations are not regulated.
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
My conclusion, in short, is that a deeper analysis of power relations is possible – an analysis that is at once value-laden, theoretical and empirical. A pessimistic attitude towards the possibility of such an analysis is unjustified. As Frey has written (1971: 1095), such pessimism amounts to saying: ‘Why let things be difficult when, with just a little more effort, we can make them seem impossible?’
Power: A Radical View
Steven Lukes
The short time frame of modern institutions limits the ripening of informal trust.
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
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