| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Physical description |
xiii, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Nature of This Disease -- 1.Good Souls, Corrupted -- 2.Good Questions, Raised -- 3.1 + 1 = -- pt. II Tells -- 4.Why Don't We Have Free Markets? -- 5.Why Don't We Have Efficient Markets? -- 6.Why Don't We Have Successful Schools? -- 7.Why Isn't Our Financial System Safe? -- Where Were the Regulators? -- 8.What the "Tells" Tell Us -- pt. III Beyond Suspicion: Congress's Corruption -- 9.Why So Damn Much Money -- Demand for Campaign Cash -- Supply of Campaign Cash: Substance -- Supply of Campaign Cash: New Norms -- Supply of Campaign Cash: New Suppliers -- Economies, Gift and Otherwise -- 10.What So Damn Much Money Does -- A Baseline of Independence -- Deviations from a Baseline -- 0.It Matters Not at All -- 1.Distraction -- 2.Distortion -- 3.Trust -- 11.How So Damn Much Money Defeats the Left -- 12.How So Damn Much Money Defeats the Right -- 1.Making Government Small -- 2.Simple Taxes -- 3.Keeping Markets Efficient -- |
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Contents note continued: 13.How So Little Money Makes Things Worse -- The Ways We Pay Congress -- The Benefits of Working for Members -- 14.Two Conceptions of "Corruption" -- pt. IV Solutions -- 15.Reforms That Won't Reform -- The Incompleteness of Transparency -- The (Practical) Ineffectiveness of Anonymity -- 16.Reforms That Would Reform -- The Grant and Franklin Project -- 17.Strategy 1: The Conventional Game -- 18.Strategy 2: An Unconventional (Primary) Game -- 19.Strategy 3: An Unconventional Presidential Game -- 20.Strategy 4: The Convention Game -- 21.Choosing Strategies. |
| Summary |
A Harvard Law professor explains how being influenced by money overshadows the will of the people in the political arena regardless of party lines and offers strategies to take back the democracy from those with moneyed or corporate interests. |
| Subject |
United States. Congress -- Ethics.
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Lobbying -- Corrupt practices -- United States.
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Political corruption -- United States.
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United States -- Politics and government.
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United States. |
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US Congress. |
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Political ethics. |
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Corruption. |
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Lobbying. |
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Statistics. |
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Overseas item. |
| Variant Title |
How money corrupts Congress, and a plan to stop it. |
| ISBN |
9780446576437 (hardcover) |
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