Bibliograph

After capitalism, David Schweickart

Type

Label

After capitalism, David Schweickart

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-235) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

After capitalism

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

715287416

Responsibility statement

David Schweickart

Series statement

New critical theory

Summary

Since first published in 2002, this book has offered students and political activists alike a vision of a viable and desirable alternative to capitalism. The author calls this system Economic Democracy, a successor-system to capitalism which preserves the efficiency strengths of a market economy while extending democracy to the workplace and to the structures of investment finance. In the second edition, he recognizes that increased globalization of companies has created greater than ever interdependent economies and the debate about the desirability of entrepreneurship is escalating. The new edition includes a new preface, completely updated data, reorganized chapters, and new sections on the economic instability of capitalism, the current economic crisis, and China. Drawing on both theoretical and empirical research, the author shows how and why this model is efficient, dynamic, and applicable in the world today

Table Of Contents

Counterproject, successor-system, revolution -- Justifying capitalism -- Economic democracy: what it is -- Capitalism or socialism? : Inequality, unemployment, overwork, poverty -- Capitalism or socialism? : economic instability, environmental degradation, democracy -- Getting from here to there

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