Of the People, by the People: The Case for a Participatory Economy

Of the People, by the People: The Case for a Participatory Economy
ISBN-10
0983059764
ISBN-13
9780983059769
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
2012-08-01
Publisher
AK Press
Author
Robin Hahnel

Description

Unless the economy is of the people and by the people it will never be for the people. This book is for people who want to know what a desirable alternative to capitalism might look like. It is for people who want more than rosy rhetoric and Pollyannaish descriptions of people working in harmony. It is for people want to dig into what economic justice and economic democracy mean. It is a book for optimists-who believe the human species must be capable of something better than succumbing to competition and greed or authoritarianism, and would like to know how we can do it. It is also a book for skeptics-who demand to be shown, explicitly and concretely, how a modern economy can dispense with markets and authoritarian planning, and how hundreds of millions of people can manage their own division of labor efficiently and equitably.

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