The financial market crisis of 2008/2009 triggered efforts at re-regulation at all political levels, national, European, and international. Reform demands had been radical and comprehensive but effective regulatory change was halting, and then in summer 2011 the related connected sovereign debt...

Democracy, domination, and the challenge of economic governance -- Managerialism and the new deal legacy -- The progressive critique of the market -- Economic domination and democratic action -- Structuring democratic agency -- Anti-domination as regulatory strategy -- Democratic agency as...

"Why did America embrace consumer credit over the course of the twentieth century, when most other countries did not? How did American policy makers by the late twentieth century come to believe that more credit would make even poor families better off? This book traces the historical emergence...