lecture 9.1 markets are terrible

Question 1

wh do citizens who cherish freedom as an ideal vote to constraint their own freedom by increasing the power of corporations?

Answer 1

its because free market ideology masks the ways in which corporations deploy undemocratic modes of coercion

Question 2

political undeu influence

Answer 2

politicians portray government as an obstachle to freedom

politicians adopt managerial language (impoverished and diminishes the politician)

Question 3

social undue influence

Answer 3

preference for efficient,skill-based education

meritocracy

Question 4

political freedom noam chomsky

Answer 4

explains how the concentration of wealth (base, economic power) and the concentration of power (superstructure, political power) mutually reinforce each other and thus make up a vicious circle

The private interests of the elite take priority over the public interest

The elite tries to thwart the power of labor unions. job insecurity leads to the precariat