Economic Democracy (Routledge Revivals)
Economic Democracy (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Martin Carnoy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-12

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1317277082

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This book is a discussion of and an argument for alternatives to the present structure of production in the United States—alternatives that would change the control of capital and how it is used. First published 1980, Carnoy and Shearer discuss the economic problems facing the 1980s and argue for a strategy to transform capital from corporations to the public. A book that remains relevant in today’s political economic climate, this title is ideal for students of economics and politics, as well as general readers interested in past and present economic problems and potential solutions.

The Impact of Economic Democracy
The Impact of Economic Democracy

Author: Michael Poole

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-19

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1317829549

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First published in 1990, this work examines the link between the economic performance of companies and profit sharing. The relationship is a complex one: industrial relations may be improved by schemes, but good employers are likely to introduce profit sharing in any case; and though attitudes to work do change, schemes have more immediate impact on satisfaction an communications than on productivity and effort put into work.

Economic Justice and Democracy
Economic Justice and Democracy

Author: Robin Hahnel

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1135953767

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In Economic Justice and Democracy, Robin Hahnel puts aside most economic theories from the left and the right (from central planning to unbridled corporate enterprise) as undemocratic, and instead outlines a plan for restructuring the relationship between markets and governments according to effects, rather than contributions. This idea is simple, provocative, and turns most arguments on their heads: those most affected by a decision get to make it. It's uncomplicated, unquestionably American in its freedom-reinforcement, and essentially what anti-globalization protestors are asking for. Companies would be more accountable to their consumers, polluters to nearby homeowners, would-be factory closers to factory town inhabitants. Sometimes what's good for General Motors is bad for America, which is why we have regulations in the first place. Though participatory economics, as Robert Heilbronner termed has been discussed more outside America than in it, Hahnel has followed discussions elsewhere and also presents many of the arguments for and against this system and ways to put it in place.

From Dictatorship to Democracy
From Dictatorship to Democracy

Author: Jane Harrigan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-05-08

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1351791966

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This title was first published in 2001. Persuasive new research on the emergence of a new approach to structural adjustment programmes emerging in Malawi during the late 1990s. By focusing on the enabling role of the state and non-price structural reforms in the agricultural sector, the author presents valuable lessons for economic reforms in other Sub-Saharan countries.

The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm (Routledge Revivals)
The Democratic Worker-Owned Firm (Routledge Revivals)

Author: David Ellerman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-04-14

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1317484789

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When this book was first published in 1990, there were massive economic changes in the East and significant economic challenges to the West. This critical analysis of democratic theory discusses the principles and forces that push both socialist and capitalist economies toward a common ground of workplace democratization. This book is a comprehensive approach to the theory and practice of the "Democratic firm" – from philosophical first principles to legal theory and finally to some of the details of financial structure. The argument for economic democracy supports private property, free markets and entrepreneurship for instance, but fundamentally it replaces the employer/employee relationship with democratic membership in the firm. For students, teachers, policy makers and others interested in the application of democracy to the workplace, this book will serve as a manifesto and a standard reference on the topic.

Christian Democracy in France (Routledge Revivals)
Christian Democracy in France (Routledge Revivals)

Author: R. E. M. Irving

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-03-23

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 1136955399

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Christian Democracy, which may briefly be defined as organised political action by Catholic democrats, has been a major political force in Western Europe since the Second World War, not least in France. The aim of this book, first published in 1973, is to trace the Development of Christian Democracy in France from its origins in the 1830s to the present day, discussing its theories and its importance in French history and politics, with particular (but by no means exclusive) reference to the Fourth Republic (1946-58) when the MRP was one of the key centre parties. Dr Irving provides a thorough analysis of MRP, its economic, foreign and colonial policies, and gives reasons for the relative decline of French Christian Democracy in the 1960s. This French movement has been little understood in Britain and a throrough history has been badly needed. This study will be valuable to all those who, in the context of a United Europe, wish to understand the political forces at work at its conception. It will be valuable especially to students of modern history and politics.

Freedom and Equality (Routledge Revivals)
Freedom and Equality (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Keith Dixon

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-01-22

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1135155933

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Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism. In contrast to many recent books justifying conservatism and varieties of Marxism, Keith Dixon defends the two great principles underpinning democratic socialism – freedom and equality. He aims both to restore the idea of freedom to its proper place in the political vocabulary of the left and to defend a stark version of freedom as absence of constraint. Only this version of freedom, he argues, is consistent with the proper defence of civil liberties. Dixon also defends radical egalitarianism from its critics, who either repudiate its full force or reject it out of hand. He believes that freedom and equality are potentially realizable socialist goals, that democratic socialism is not necessarily linked with fraternalism, and – above all – that it should be based upon a firm and consistent conception of individuality.

The Czechoslovak Economy 1918-1980 (Routledge Revivals)
The Czechoslovak Economy 1918-1980 (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Alice Teichova

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-19

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 1317831497

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Originally published in 1988, this book assesses social and economic change against the background of the international economy and the dramatic political events of the twentieth century - the break up of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Peace Treaty of Versailles, the Munich Agreement of 1938 and the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, the occupation by Nazi Germany, the attempt to reconstruct a democratic Republic, the period of Stalinism and the 'Prague Spring' of 1968. Thus the book produces a balanced historical outline of the economy of Czechoslovakia between 1918 and 1980.

Efficiency, Equality and the Ownership of Property (Routledge Revivals)
Efficiency, Equality and the Ownership of Property (Routledge Revivals)

Author: James E. Meade

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 1136258876

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First published in 1964, this is a study of the extreme inequalities in the ownership of property, in economies across the globe. Professor Meade examines in depth the economic, demographic and social factors which lead to such inequalities. He considers a wide range of remedial policies – educational development, reformed death duties and capital taxes, demographic policies, trade union action, the socialization of property, the development of a property-owning democracy, the expansion of the welfare state. The argument is expressed in precise analytical terms, but the main exposition is free of mathematics and technical jargon and is designed for the interested layman as well as the economist.

Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the 21st Century
Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the 21st Century

Author: J. W. Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 1315501392

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This title was first published in 1999: The author contends that economic democracy is the economic system the U.S. purports to have, but has thus far failed to achieve because it, like all the economic powers that have gone before, seeks to control the economies of weaker nations. It is the shocking lack of economic democracy, and the efforts of so many to achieve it, that fuels today's conflicts and will fuel those of the 21st century.To show how and why, this comprehensive work provides a detailed analysis of the history of numerous aspects of the development of the Neo-Mercantilist world economy; the geopolitical systems put in place by the developed world to manage and perpetuate that economy; and the numerous proposals and modeling plans that have been offered over the years for the achievement of economic democracy.