Democracy and Capitalism

The ability to choose stands as a hallmark of consumer culture; it is also central to modern human rights philosophy and feminism. How did choice-making become a proxy for freedom in so many different domains? In her latest book, Sophia Rosenfeld tells the long and complex story of choice as a social value – thus illuminating a fraught area in the history of capitalist democracies.

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