Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

By E. Glen Weyl ’07 *08 and Eric A. Posner

Published March 7, 2018

Radical Markets (Princeton University Press) offers some counterintuitive ideas for reforming the economy and the country. The authors argue, for example, that private property should be abolished in favor of public auction, that one vote for every person limits democracy, and that companies need to compensate individuals from the data they harvest from online activity.

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