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- catalog abstract "Nearly all Western economists claim that successful modern economies require hierarchical work, unequal consumption, and market coordination. Most "progressive" economists agree, adding only pleas for a more secure safety net or perhaps a "mixed economy." All these economists insist that the only alternative to the market is the discredited, bureaucratic, command economy of the Eastern Bloc Whatever else we might desire, they say, we cannot achieve anything better. Looking Forward challenges this "impossibility theorem" and spells out how we can do much better. Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? Why shouldn't communities have a dominant voice in running the institutions that affect their lives? Albert and Hahnel agree with Noam Chomsky that "The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary participation of people who produce and create, live their lives freely within institutions they control and with limited hierarchical structures, possibly none at all." In this popularly written and carefully argued book, Albert and Hahnel describe how work could be organized efficiently and productively without hierarchy; how consumption could be fulfilling and also equitable; and how participatory planning could promote solidarity and foster self-management while still "getting the job done." Breaking with unexamined dogmas, Albert and Hahnel provide a clear, practical, and humane alternative vision for a truly participatory economy. -- Back cover.".
- catalog alternative "Participatory economics.".
- catalog contributor b2832421.
- catalog contributor b2832422.
- catalog created "c1991.".
- catalog date "1991".
- catalog date "c1991.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1991.".
- catalog description "1. Work Without Hierarchy 15 -- 2. Participatory Workplaces 27 -- 3. Egalitarian Consumption 46 -- 4. Participatory Consumption 53 -- 5. Allocation Without Hierarchy 65 -- 6. Participatory Allocation 74 -- 7. Workplace Decision Making 95 -- 8. Consumption Planning 114 -- 9. Allocation Decision Making 121 -- 10. The Information Society 130 -- 11. Conclusion and Transition 141.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Nearly all Western economists claim that successful modern economies require hierarchical work, unequal consumption, and market coordination. Most "progressive" economists agree, adding only pleas for a more secure safety net or perhaps a "mixed economy." All these economists insist that the only alternative to the market is the discredited, bureaucratic, command economy of the Eastern Bloc Whatever else we might desire, they say, we cannot achieve anything better. Looking Forward challenges this "impossibility theorem" and spells out how we can do much better. Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? Why shouldn't communities have a dominant voice in running the institutions that affect their lives? Albert and Hahnel agree with Noam Chomsky that "The task for a modern industrial society is to achieve what is now technically realizable, namely, a society which is really based on free voluntary participation of people who produce and create, live their lives freely within institutions they control and with limited hierarchical structures, possibly none at all." In this popularly written and carefully argued book, Albert and Hahnel describe how work could be organized efficiently and productively without hierarchy; how consumption could be fulfilling and also equitable; and how participatory planning could promote solidarity and foster self-management while still "getting the job done." Breaking with unexamined dogmas, Albert and Hahnel provide a clear, practical, and humane alternative vision for a truly participatory economy. -- Back cover.".
- catalog extent "153 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Looking forward.".
- catalog identifier "0896084051 (pbk.) :".
- catalog identifier "089608406X (cloth) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Looking forward.".
- catalog issued "1991".
- catalog issued "c1991.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston, MA : South End Press,".
- catalog relation "Looking forward.".
- catalog subject "330 20".
- catalog subject "Comparative economics.".
- catalog subject "Distributive justice.".
- catalog subject "Economic policy Citizen participation.".
- catalog subject "Economics.".
- catalog subject "HB171 .A415 1991".
- catalog subject "Industrial management Employee participation.".
- catalog subject "Welfare economics.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Work Without Hierarchy 15 -- 2. Participatory Workplaces 27 -- 3. Egalitarian Consumption 46 -- 4. Participatory Consumption 53 -- 5. Allocation Without Hierarchy 65 -- 6. Participatory Allocation 74 -- 7. Workplace Decision Making 95 -- 8. Consumption Planning 114 -- 9. Allocation Decision Making 121 -- 10. The Information Society 130 -- 11. Conclusion and Transition 141.".
- catalog title "Looking forward : participatory economics for the twenty first century / Michael Albert & Robin Hahnel.".
- catalog title "Participatory economics.".
- catalog type "text".