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Incomplete Democracy: Why Democracy Cannot Survive Without the Market

Bullard, Alfredo
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market economy and democracy
 individual rights
 preference aggregations
 minority protection
 stability conventions
 political system
 public goods
 pivate goods
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Abstract
Imagine a hypothetical country in which three constitutional reforms are made. The first is to change the economic system so that decisions concerning the production of private goods are made democratically. The second is to change the political system so that decisions concerning the production of public goods are made by the market. The third is to subject the existence of individual rights to majority approval. Analyzing these reforms helps us understand the limits that the economy imposes on democracy, and those that democracy imposes on the market.
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/17528