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Democracy in Crisis

Michael Jensen | OP8 | 05 October 1983

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Is there are conflict between unlimited political democracy and a Markey economy? Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling argue that the capacity of modern governments to transfer property rights unilaterally distorts the political market in favour of vested interests and poses a fundamental challenge to the market system and to the democratic process itself.