Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy Between Knowledge and Power Caused the Financial Crisis and Threatens Democracy

by Arnold Kling

In Unchecked and Unbalanced, Arnold Kling provides a blueprint for those who are skeptical of political and financial elitism. At the heart of Kling's argument is the growing discrepancy between two phenomena: knowledge is becoming more diffuse, while political power is becoming more concentrated.

Kling sees this knowledge/power discrepancy at the heart of the financial crisis of 2008. Financial industry executives and regulatory officials...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144220124X
• ISBN13: 9781442201248
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.3"