Ebook: The gardens of democracy: a new American story of citizenship, the economy, and the role of government

Argues that in contrast to the eighteenth-century concept of society as a predictable machine, twenty-first century American democracy needs to be viewed as a series of complex, interrelated systems capable of coming up with adaptive solutions to its problems.;Seeds: gardenbrain vs. machinebrain -- Self-interest: true self-interest is mutual interest -- Great citizenship: society becomes how you behave -- True capitalism: we're all better off when we're all better off -- Self-government: big what, small how -- Harvest: we reap what we sow.