Recasting Egalitarianism: New Rules for Communities, States and Markets (Real Utopias): 3 (The Real Utopias Project) - Hardcover

Gintis, Herbert; Bowles, Samuel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 185984863X ISBN 13: 9781859848630

Publisher: Verso Books, 1998

Synopsis

This text addresses the challenges posed by a globally integrated economy and the economic roles played by information and motivation. The text argues for an egalitarian redistribution of assets - land, capital and housing - and espouses the beneficial disciplining effects of competition. Contributors include: Harry Brighouse; Michael Carter; Steve Durlauf; Paula England; David Gordon; Daniel M. Hausman; Karla Hoff; Andrew Levine; Elaine McCrate; Karl Ove Moen; Ugo Pagano; John E. Roemer; Peter Skott; Michael Wallerstein; and Erik Olin Wright.

About this title

Review:

"Recasting Egalitarianism is an exceptionally stimulating collection of essays ... compulsory reading for everyone concerned with the policies and politics of equality."--Frank Vandenbrouke, former Vice-Prime Minister of Belgium of leader of the Socialistiche Partij

"This is a timely, original and enormously useful book for rethinking alternatives to the status quo, in Latin America and elsewhere."--Jorge G. Castaneda, author of Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left after the Cold War; and Campanero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara

About the Author:

Samuel Bowles is an American economist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Herbert Gintis is an American behavioral scientist, educator, and author. He is currently Professor at the Central European University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. Erik Olin Wright is Vilas Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of many books, including Classes, Interrogating Inequality, Class Counts, Deepening Democracy (with Archon Fung), and Envisioning Real Utopias. For more information on Envisioning Real Utopias and the Real Utopias project, and to access book content, please visit realutopias.org (site in progress). John E. Roemer is the Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Professor of Political Science and Economics. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and has been a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 185984863X
• ISBN 13: 9781859848630
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 412
• Editor: Wright Erik Olin