Facing the Plague: Economic and Political Inequality

  • Langdon Winner Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Keywords: Anthropology, economics, politics, sociology.

Abstract

Hopes for the future of democracy must now confront a basic power shift that has emerged since the early 1970s and is now reaching its advanced stages.   This shift in control over key decisions and policies is clearly visible in my own country, the U.S.A., but is evident in many other nations as well.  At stake is a seemingly ineluctable transfer of power from national governments to the transnational firms; from elected officials to directors of large banks, hedge funds, and global firms; from citizens to plutocrats; from democracy to corporatocracy.

Author Biography

Langdon Winner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Langdon Winner es un teórico político centrado en las cuestiones políticas y sociales relacionados con el cambio tecnológico. Es autor de Autonomous Technology (MIT Press, 1978), un estudio sobre la idea de la tecnología fuera de control en la modernidad, de The Whale and The Reactor: A search for Limits in an Age of High Technology(Univ. of Chicago Press, 1988) y editor de Democracy in a Technological Society (Springer, 1992). http://homepages.rpi.edu/~winner/
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Published
2014-12-30
How to Cite
Winner, L. (2014). Facing the Plague: Economic and Political Inequality. Teknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital Y Movimientos Sociales, 11(3), 507-527. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/48170
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Vol. 11 No. 3 (2014): Miscellany
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Karpeta

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