IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE by Ivo Mosley. Imprint Academic, September 2012. Democracy is supposed to mean ‘rule by the people’. But everywhere ‘peoples’ are mired in poverty while political and financial elites live off debt they create for the poor. For most of history, the form of government we live under – electoral representation – was considered to be the very opposite of democracy. It looks increasingly as if ‘most of history’ was right. ‘In The Name Of The People’ examines the illusion of democracy by electoral representation. The first three chapters chronicle how the illusion was planted and grew in the USA, in France and in England. The fourth chapter looks at what is perhaps the ultimate betrayal by elected representatives - cooperating with banks in creating money as debt, and creating new elites in the process who are neither responsible nor accountable. The fifth chapter looks at how electoral representation performs when it is adopted by countries hopeful of self-rule, only to find themselves victims of plunder. The sixth chapter looks at the corporate systems which have become so powerful and destructive – industrial, financial and governmental. Not to leave the reader without hope, the seventh chapter investigates what democracy really means, how it has worked meaningfully in the past, and how it could be introduced into our Western systems today for the benefit of all. BACK TO HOME PAGE IMPRINT ACADEMIC Sample Chapter