Alternatives to Capitalism (Studies in Marxism and Social Theory) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052137815X ISBN 13: 9780521378154

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1989

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Alternatives to Capitalism - Spanish

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Book Description:

The essays in this provocative collection survey and assess institutional arrangements that could be alternatives to capitalism as it exists today. This book is the first to cover such a wide range of subjects as central planning, market socialism, and profit sharing. It will prove indispensable to political and social scientists, and economists.

Synopsis:

The essays in this provocative collection survey and assess institutional arrangements that offer possible alternatives to capitalism as it exists today. The point of departure agreed upon by the contributors is that on the one hand, capitalism produces unemployment, a lack of autonomy in the workplace, and massive income inequalities; while on the other, central socialist planning is characterized by underemployment, inefficiency, and bureaucracy. In Part I of the volume, various alternatives are proposed: profit-sharing systems, capitalism combined with some central planning, worker-owned firms in a market economy into a centrally planned economy, as has occurred recently in Hungary. Part II provides a theoretical analysis and assessment of these systems. This book is the first to cover such a wide range of subjects as central planning, market socialism, and profit sharing. It will prove indispensable to political and social scientists, and economists.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 052137815X
• ISBN 13: 9780521378154
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188
• Editor: Elster Jon, Moene Karl O.