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

Lawrence Lessig è Roy L. Furman Professore di diritto e leadership presso la Harvard Law School. Prima di tornare ad Harvard, ha insegnato alla Stanford Law School, dove ha fondato il Center for Internet and Society, e all'Università di Chicago. Ha lavorato per il giudice Richard Posner presso la 7th Circuit Court of Appeals e il giudice Antonin Scalia presso la Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti. Lessig è il fondatore di Equal Citizens e un membro fondatore del consiglio di Creative Commons, e fa parte del consiglio scientifico dell'AXA Research Fund. Membro dell'American Academy of Arts and Sciences e dell'American Philosophical Society, ha ricevuto numerosi premi tra cui un Webby, il Freedom Award della Free Software Foundation, il Scientific American 50 Award e il Fastcase 50 Award. Una volta citato dal New Yorker come "il più importante pensatore sulla proprietà intellettuale nell'era di Internet", Lessig ha spostato la sua attenzione dal diritto e dalla tecnologia alla "corruzione istituzionale", relazioni che, sebbene legali, indeboliscono la fiducia del pubblico in un'istituzione, in particolare in quanto ciò influisce sulla democrazia. Lessig ha conseguito una laurea in economia e una laurea in management presso l'Università della Pennsylvania, un master in filosofia presso l'Università di Cambridge e un JD a Yale.

Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress And a Plan to Stop It pdf da 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.