Hilary Hogan (European University Institute) has posted Book Review: The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy, (Forthcoming, 2023) International Journal of Constitutional Law (International Journal of Constitutional Law) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
In the Anti-Oligarchy Constitution, Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath offer a roadmap for modern day progressives concerned with ever-increasing economic inequality. The U.S. Constitution does not simply permit wealth redistribution, they argue: it demands it. Fishkin and Forbath seek to revive long-forgotten constitutional discourse that views constraining concentrations of wealth as necessary for the preservation of a functioning democratic republic, which should inform how every provision of the Constitution is interpreted. This is what Fishkin and Forbath describe as the “democracy of opportunity” tradition.