(인문학/동영상) How votes & elections are bought: 25 min interview w Thomas Ferguson

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How votes & elections are bought: 25 min interview w Thomas Ferguson

A 25min interview I did at UMass in 2009 w Thomas Ferguson, the outmost US scholar on the role of money in elections. With some added B-roll footage and a few comments by Noam Chomsky. Relevant to understand this year's elections.

Noam Chomsky's book <Making the Future - Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance>

"Political economist Thomas Ferguson's "investment theory of politics" is a very successful prediction of government policy over a long period. The theory interprets elections as occasions on which segments of private sector power coalesce to invest to control the state." (p. 190)

노암 촘스키의 저서 <촘스키, 만들어진 세계 우리가 만들어갈 미래>

"정치경제학자 토머스 퍼거슨이 말한 '정치의 투자이론'은 장기적인 정부정책을 상당히 정확하게 에측한다. 이 이론에 의하면, 선거는 힘이 있는 민간기업들이 연대하여 국가에 영향력을 행사하기 위해 투자할 수 있는 기회이다." (201쪽)