Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
Gresham College Lectures
Caps of Liberty: The Oddity of Democracy
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The oddity of democracy is that government by the people means that the same group who are the rulers are, at the same time, subjects. There is a continuing tension between democracy as workers' control, and democracy as consumer sovereignty.