Um tratado sobre os nossos actuais descontentamentos
by:
Tony Judt (author)
Marcelo Felix (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789724416328
Publish date: November 2010
Publisher: Edições 70
Pages no: 219
Edition language: Portuguese
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
American,
Economics,
Culture,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Cultural Studies,
Political Science
Appropriately for a kind of Social Democrat Manifesto (there is even a chapter titled "What is to be done") this is nicely mild mannered. More interesting is the quick historical overview of the ideology of the welfare state and Judt's nicely contemptuous take on identity politics liberalism.
Judt tells the history of Anglo-American political economy from the Great Depression to the present, as the story of the rise and fall of Keynesianism and social democracy. In his version, social democracy–in which a regulated market is guided by broad political consensus to provide material comfort...
Since the state is going to be with us for the foreseeable future, we would do well to think about what sort of a state we want.