آینده ترقی‌خواهی آمریکایی: ابتکاری برای اصلاحات سیاسی و اقتصادی

"A bold political analysis that should inspire public life." —Kirkus Reviews Seizing the quintessentially American idea that everything is possible, Unger and West argue that we can stimulate economic growth and guarantee opportunity and sufficient resources for all citizens. They propose specific reforms in business, taxation, so cial security, and education, and their program is an image of American political and civic life as a vital, evolving, and hopeful arena for solving our collective problems. Theirs is an all-inclusive, bipartisan, business-friendly vision. "A thin volume packed with solutions to our nation's inequities." —Ebony Returning to the most fundamental goal of democracy - the realization of the potential of all citizens - and drawing on the best of the American progressive tradition, the authors challenge the widely held assumption that it's impossible to stimulate economic growth and at the same time guarantee opportunity and a minimum of resources for all citizens. Seizing the quintessentially American idea that everything is possible, Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Cornel West argue that we can use it to reinvent our public institutions. While they propose specific reforms in business, taxation, social security, and education, their program is an image of American political and civic life as a vital, evolving, and hopeful arena for solving our collective problems. Unless Americans prove themselves willing to be as open-minded about the institutional arrangements of the country as they have been about almost everything else, they will continue to find their hopes frustrated. It is not enough to rebel against the lack of justice unless we also rebel against the lack of imagination. Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Cornel West argue that the path to progressive reform goes through reorganization of our economic and political instutitions; tax and spending are not enough. Breaking with the conventional ideas of American progressive politics, they show how we can stimulate economic growth and guarantee a minimum of resources for all citizens. CONTENTS......Page 6 1 THE HUMANIZATION Of THE INEVITABLE ......Page 8 2 THE AMERICAN RELIGION Of POSSIBILITY ......Page 13 3 THE BURDEN Of AMERICAN HISTORY ON AMERICAN HOPES ......Page 21 4 INSTITUTIONAL EXPERIMENTS AND AMERICAN HOPES ......Page 30 5 THE FRUSTRATION Of AMERICAN DEMOCRACY ......Page 40 6 VANGUARDS AND REARGUARDS IN THE NEW WORLD ECONOMY ......Page 49 7 THE RECENT PAST Of AMERICAN PROGRESSIVISM ......Page 54 8 AMERICAN PROGRESSIVISM REORIENTED ......Page 63