Republic, Lost_ How Money Corrupts Congress--And a Plan to Stop It - Lawrence Lessig [181]
2. Distortion
3. Trust
11. How So Damn Much Money Defeats the Left
12. How So Damn Much Money Defeats the Right
1. Making Government Small
2. Simple Taxes
3. Keeping Markets Efficient
13. How So Little Money Makes Things Worse
The Ways We Pay Congress
The Benefits of Working for Members
14. Two Conceptions of “Corruption”
PART IV: Solutions
15. Reforms That Won’t Reform
The Incompleteness of Transparency
The (Practical) Ineffectiveness of Anonymity
16. Reforms That Would Reform
The Grant and Franklin Project
17. Strategy 1: The Conventional Game
18. Strategy 2: An Unconventional (Primary) Game
19. Strategy 3: An Unconventional Presidential Game
20. Strategy 4: The Convention Game
21. Choosing Strategies
Conclusion: Rich People
Acknowledgments
Appendix: What You Can Do, Now
Notes
About the Author
Also by Lawrence Lessig
Copyright
About the Author
Having spent much of his career exposing the illusion of copyright law’s action, Lawrence Lessig currently works in institutional corruption, probing the decisions of institutions that gamble public trust on failed wars and special interests. Lessig directs the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, professes at Harvard Law School, and champions the necessity of democratic citizenship through his leadership of the Fix Congress First movement. He also serves on the boards of Creative Commons; MapLight; Brave New Film Foundation; Change Congress; the American Academy, Berlin; Freedom House; and iCommons.org; and on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation.
Prior to rejoining the Harvard faculty, Lessig founded Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society and was professor of law at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and for Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. Among Lessig’s achievements are the Free Software Foundation’s Freedom Award and being named one of Scientific American’s Top Fifty Visionaries. Lessig holds a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge University, and a JD from Yale University.
Also by Lawrence Lessig
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
Code: And Other laws of Cyberspace
With Kembrew MacLeod
Freedom of Expression: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
With Joseph Michael Reagle, Jr.
Good Faith Collaboration: The Cuture of Wikipedia
Copyright
Copyright © 2011 by Lawrence Lessig
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First eBook Edition: October 2011
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