The vanishing state? Government's dwindling appetite for regulating capitalism is not an inevitable product of today's global economy. It's a handy alibi.(REDEEMING GOVERNMENT)
American Prospect, The, May, 2005 by Reich, Robert
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MORE PERMEABLE BORDERS SEEM TO MAKE it more difficult for a nation to maintain a mixed economy, regulate capital in the public interest, provide decent wages, and foster a political coalition to defend all of the above. Indeed, there is an extensive conservative literature contending that the global market renders the role of the state moot, and good riddance.
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Yet it remains entirely possible to maintain a domestic social contract while developing a robust internationalism with rules that benefit everyone, not just the elite, and to build a wealthy and competitive nation that ...
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