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- The_Price_of_Civilization abstract "The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity (ISBN 978-1-4000-6841-8) is a book by economist Jeffrey Sachs. It was published by Random House on October 4, 2011 in the US and by Bodley Head (UK 6 Oct 2011). Sachs criticizes excessive lobbying, as well as a poor response by American government to globalization, and describes American politics as a corporatocracy in which \"powerful corporate interest groups dominate the policy agenda.\" Sachs suggests that both political parties are right-of-center, and identifies four powerful lobbies as (1) military-industrial complex (2) Wall Street–Washington complex (3) Big Oil–transport–military complex (4) the health care industry.The book is 336 pages. As described by Random House: the book is an \"incisive diagnosis of our country’s economic ills but also an urgent call for Americans to restore the virtues of fairness, honesty, and foresight as the foundations of national prosperity.\" The title comes from the quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr - \"Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.\" In the review in the Wall Street Journal they state: \"Yet at its core \"The Price of Civilization\" is not about taxes or economics. It is about the \"pursuit of happiness\" as one academic understands it.\" The book focuses on the changes going on in the world, the effects of these changes on the economic conditions and the necessary actions that will be required to deal with these changes in this new world if America is going to succeed.Sachs criticizes excessive lobbying for interfering with democracy, and sees America's two-party system as stifling lesser parties. He blames the first past the post voting arrangement for being one of the factors leading to a two-party system:The main reason for America's majoritarian character is the electoral system for Congress. Members of Congress are elected in single-member districts according to the \"first-past-the-post\" (FPTP) principle, meaning that the candidate with the plurality of votes is the winner of the congressional seat. The losing party or parties win no representation at all. The first-past-the-post election tends to produce a small number of major parties, perhaps just two, a principle known in political science as Duverger's Law. Smaller parties are trampled in first-past-the-post elections.".
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