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Author Roberts, Alasdair (Alasdair Scott), author.

Title The end of protest : how free-market capitalism learned to control dissent / Alasdair Roberts
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Cornell selects
Contents Schumpeter's paradox -- Controlling disorder in the first liberal age -- The market comes back -- The new method of controlling disorder -- The end of crowd politics
Summary "Tracing the histories of economic unrest in the United States and Great Britain from the nineteenth century to the present, The End of Protest shows that governments have always been preoccupied with the task of controlling dissent over free market policies. But today's methods pose a new threat to democratic values. For the moment, advocates of free-market capitalism have found ways of controlling discontent, but the continued effectiveness of these strategies is by no means certain"-- Publisher's Web site
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Social control -- United States -- History
Social control -- Great Britain -- History
Protest movements -- United States -- History
Protest movements -- Great Britain -- History
Capitalism -- United States -- History
Capitalism -- Great Britain -- History
Free enterprise -- Social aspects -- United States
Free enterprise -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Democracy -- Economic aspects -- United States
Democracy -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Economy.
Capitalism
Democracy -- Economic aspects
Free enterprise -- Social aspects
Protest movements
Social control
Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781501714436
1501714430