Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress And a Plan to Stop It PDF

Lawrence Lessig ist Roy L. Furman Professor für Recht und Führung an der Harvard Law School. Vor seiner Rückkehr nach Harvard lehrte er an der Stanford Law School, wo er das Center for Internet and Society gründete, und an der University of Chicago. Er arbeitete für Richter Richard Posner am 7. Berufungsgericht und Richter Antonin Scalia am Obersten Gerichtshof der Vereinigten Staaten. Lessig ist Gründer von Equal Citizens und Gründungsmitglied von Creative Commons und Mitglied des wissenschaftlichen Beirats des AXA Research Fund. Als Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences und der American Philosophical Society hat er zahlreiche Auszeichnungen erhalten, darunter einen Webby, den Freedom Award der Free Software Foundation, den Scientific American 50 Award und den Fastcase 50 Award. Einst von The New Yorker als „der wichtigste Denker für geistiges Eigentum im Internetzeitalter“ bezeichnet, hat Lessig seinen Fokus von Recht und Technologie auf „institutionelle Korruption“ verlagert – Beziehungen, die zwar legal sind, aber insbesondere das Vertrauen der Öffentlichkeit in eine Institution schwächen denn das wirkt sich auf die Demokratie aus. Lessig hat einen BA in Wirtschaftswissenschaften und einen BS in Management von der University of Pennsylvania, einen MA in Philosophie von der Cambridge University und einen JD von Yale.

Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress And a Plan to Stop It pdf von Lawrence Lessig

In an era when special interests funnel huge amounts of money into our government—driven by shifts in campaign-finance rules and brought to new levels by the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission—trust in our government has reached an all-time low. More than ever before, Americans believe that money buys results in Congress, and that business interests wield control over our legislature. With heartfelt urgency and a keen desire for righting wrongs, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig takes a clear-eyed look at how we arrived at this crisis: how fundamentally good people, with good intentions, have allowed our democracy to be co-opted by outside interests, and how this exploitation has become entrenched in the system. Rejecting simple labels and reductive logic—and instead using examples that resonate as powerfully on the Right as on the Left—Lessig seeks out the root causes of our situation. He plumbs the issues of campaign financing and corporate lobbying, revealing the human faces and follies that have allowed corruption to take such a foothold in our system. He puts the issues in terms that nonwonks can understand, using real-world analogies and real human stories. And ultimately he calls for widespread mobilization and a new Constitutional Convention, presenting achievable solutions for regaining control of our corrupted—but redeemable—representational system. In this way, Lessig plots a roadmap for returning our republic to its intended greatness. While America may be divided, Lessig vividly champions the idea that we can succeed if we accept that corruption is our common enemy and that we must find a way to fight against it. In REPUBLIC, LOST, he not only makes this need palpable and clear—he gives us the practical and intellectual tools to do something about it.