Republic, Lost · How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It by Lessig, Lawrence -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Front Cover Image Welcome Dedication Preface Introduction PART I: The Nature of this Disease

1. Good Souls, Corrupted 2. Good Questions, Raised 3. 1 + 1 =

PART II: Tells

4. Why Don’t We Have Free Markets? 5. Why Don’t We Have Efficient Markets? 6. Why Don’t We Have Successful Schools? 7. Why Isn’t Our Financial System Safe?

Where Were the Regulators?

8. What the “Tells” Tell Us

PART III: Beyond Suspicion: Congress’s Corruption

9. Why So Damn Much Money

Demand for Campaign Cash Supply of Campaign Cash: Substance Supply of Campaign Cash: New Norms Supply of Campaign Cash: New Suppliers Economies, Gift and Otherwise

10. What So Damn Much Money Does

A Baseline of Independence Deviations from a Baseline 0. It Matters Not at All 1. Distraction 2. Distortion 3. Trust

11. How So Damn Much Money Defeats the Left 12. How So Damn Much Money Defeats the Right

1. Making Government Small 2. Simple Taxes 3. Keeping Markets Efficient

13. How So Little Money Makes Things Worse

The Ways We Pay Congress The Benefits of Working for Members

14. Two Conceptions of “Corruption”

PART IV: Solutions

15. Reforms That Won’t Reform

The Incompleteness of Transparency The (Practical) Ineffectiveness of Anonymity

16. Reforms That Would Reform

The Grant and Franklin Project

17. Strategy 1: The Conventional Game 18. Strategy 2: An Unconventional (Primary) Game 19. Strategy 3: An Unconventional Presidential Game 20. Strategy 4: The Convention Game 21. Choosing Strategies

Conclusion: Rich People Acknowledgments Appendix: What You Can Do, Now Notes Table of Contents About the Author Also by Lawrence Lessig Copyright Page