{"product_id":"end-of-protest-alasdair-roberts-9781501707469","title":"End of Protest: How Free-Market Capitalism Learned to Control Dissent","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe United States has just gone through the worst economic crisis in a generation. Why wasn't there more protest, as there was in other countries? During the United States' last great era of free-market policies, before World War II, economic crises were always accompanied by unrest. \"The history of capitalism,\" the economist Joseph Schumpeter warned in 1942, \"is studded with violent bursts and catastrophes.\" In \u003ci\u003eThe End of Protest\u003c\/i\u003e, Alasdair Roberts explains how, in the modern age, governments learned to unleash market forces while also avoiding protest about the market's failures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoberts argues that in the last three decades, the two countries that led the free-market revolution--the United States and Britain--have invented new strategies for dealing with unrest over free market policies. The organizing capacity of unions has been undermined so that it is harder to mobilize discontent. The mobilizing potential of new information technologies has also been checked. Police forces are bigger and better equipped than ever before. And technocrats in central banks have been given unprecedented power to avoid full-scale economic calamities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing the histories of economic unrest in the United States and Great Britain from the nineteenth century to the present, \u003ci\u003eThe End of Protest\u003c\/i\u003e shows that governments have always been preoccupied with the task of controlling dissent over free market policies. But today's methods pose a new threat to democratic values. For the moment, advocates of free-market capitalism have found ways of controlling discontent, but the continued effectiveness of these strategies is by no means certain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alasdair Roberts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501707469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501707469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.29d","brand":"Alasdair Roberts","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935200805119,"sku":"9781501707469","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_117a5ec1-20f1-46d6-be30-01f2cd7314f6.jpg?v=1681418441","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/end-of-protest-alasdair-roberts-9781501707469","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}