{"product_id":"legal-duty-and-upper-limits-bernd-reiter-9781785276408","title":"Legal Duty and Upper Limits: How to Save Our Democracy and Planet from the Rich","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book proposes a radical new way of thinking about our democratic future, our ecological survival, and our ways to keep economies fair. It shows that adopting upper limits to wealth and income; replacing elections with local direct democracy and legal duty involving randomly selected citizens; and replacing welfare and redistribution policies with pre-distribution and reparations promises new solutions to political apathy, discontent, manipulation, economic inequality, unfairness, unequal opportunities, and looming ecological disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMost public debates today focus on the poor, on minorities, and on immigrants when discussing the problems of our democracies. The poor, minorities and immigrants, however, are not our problem. They had no say in designing the kinds of systems that threaten our planet, our wellbeing, and our social and communal lives. They consume very little and thus have a minimal ecological footprint. It is the super-rich who threaten justice, fairness, equal opportunity, and ecological sustainability.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bernd Reiter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1785276409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781785276408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anthem Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/27\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.36d","brand":"Bernd Reiter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43943905558783,"sku":"9781785276408","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_48061b9e-6d96-46ba-a333-2cbab2ec4ad3.jpg?v=1681500691","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/legal-duty-and-upper-limits-bernd-reiter-9781785276408","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}