{"product_id":"the-desktop-regulatory-state-kevin-a-carson-9781523275595","title":"The Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Individuals and Networks","description":"Defenders of the modern state often claim that it's needed to protect us-from terrorists, invaders, bullies, and rapacious corporations. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, for instance, famously argued that the state was a source of \"countervailing power\" that kept other social institutions in check.But what if those \"countervailing\" institution-corporations, government agencies and domesticated labor unions-in practice collude more than they \"countervail\" each other? And what if network communications technology and digital platforms now enable us to take on all those dinosaur hierarchies as equals-and more than equals. In The Desktop Regulatory State, Kevin Carson shows how the power of self-regulation, which people engaged in social cooperation have always possessed, has been amplified and intensifed by changes in consciousness-as people have become aware of their own power and of their ability to care for themselves without the state-and in technology-especially information technology.Drawing as usual on a wide array of insights from diverse disciplines, Carson paints an inspiring, challenging, and optimistic portrait of a humane future without the state, and points provocatively toward the steps we need to take in order to achieve it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin A. Carson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1523275596\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781523275595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.93d","brand":"Kevin A. Carson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44124505637119,"sku":"9781523275595","price":21.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_429fd216-bd74-44a1-8cc8-9e93ce0317e6.jpg?v=1687437177","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-desktop-regulatory-state-kevin-a-carson-9781523275595","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}