HIST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Keynesian Revolution, Positive Liberty, Snob
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Not necessarily all democratic because there is a risk of tyranny of the majority. Social consequences: political rights do not address all social issues: right to vote but one cannot read , more involved in government, allow people to realize and act to improve their rights. New liberal argument: help individual achieve social membership, positive liberty: expectation for government to promote active citizenship. Businesses getting richer but poor not getting better condensing wealth. Engaged population (citizenship) to try to help the entire population mobilize. New liberalism: government has an obligation to help citizenship: help protect the state, tending towards socialism. Post-war, discuss new economic blueprint: bretton woods imf, world bank. False promise of laissez-faire: strive to be the one who maximizes the advantage, does not mean that one will be the richest or the wealthiest at the end of the day: cannot solve world crisis (especially economic)