After CapitalismLiberal, democratic capitalism as the end of history? Not necessarily. After Capitalism argues that there are forces developing in the world today that might constitute a "counterproject" to the project of globalizing capitalism. At present, however, this movement lacks a coherent vision of a viable, desirable alternative. After Capitalism attempts to fill this lacuna by articulating, as a successor-system to capitalism, a model of "Economic Democracy, " an economic system that preserves the efficiency strengths of a market economy, while extending democracy to the workplace and to the structures of investment finance. |
Contents
Counterproject SuccessorSystem Revolution | 1 |
11 THE COUNTERPROJECT | 3 |
12 SUCCESSORSYSTEM THEORY | 7 |
13 HISTORICAL MATERIALISM | 9 |
14 CRITERIA | 11 |
15 REVOLUTION | 12 |
16 A NOTE ON GENDER | 14 |
17 AN OUTLINE OF THE ARGUMENT | 16 |
46 ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION | 113 |
461 Overpopulation | 114 |
462 Food Scarcity | 115 |
463 Pollution | 116 |
464 Optimism Pessimism Growth Development | 117 |
465 Why Capitalism Cant Save Us | 121 |
Economic Democracy Why We Need It | 127 |
SOME BEHAVIORAL CONSEQUENCES OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE | 128 |
Justifying Capitalism | 21 |
21 WHAT IS CAPITALISM? WHAT IS A CAPITALIST? | 22 |
MARGINAL PRODUCT AS CONTRIBUTION | 24 |
THE ENTREPRENEUR | 31 |
PLAYING REVERSELOTTO | 33 |
25 THE UTILITY AND DISUTILITY OF DEFERRED CONSUMPTION | 39 |
26 TINA | 43 |
Economic Democracy What It Is | 45 |
311 Worker SelfManagement | 47 |
312 The Market | 49 |
313 Social Control of Investment | 50 |
32 THE VIABILITY OF ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY | 56 |
33 THE MONDRAGON EXPERIMENT | 65 |
34 A NOTE ON THE PUBLIC SECTOR | 71 |
35 FAIR TRADE NOT FREE TRADE | 76 |
THE EXPANDED MODEL | 80 |
361 Socialist Savings and Loan Associations | 81 |
362 Capitalists under Socialism | 82 |
Capitalism and Its Discontents | 87 |
41 INEQUALITY | 88 |
42 UNEMPLOYMENT | 93 |
43 OVERWORK | 98 |
44 POVERTY | 100 |
45 DEMOCRACY LACK THEREOF | 104 |
451 A Note on Anticommunism | 110 |
52 INEQUALITY | 131 |
53 UNEMPLOYMENT | 135 |
531 A Note on Inflation | 138 |
54 OVERWORK | 140 |
55 POVERTY | 143 |
551 Poverty in Rich Countries | 144 |
553 A Note on Immigration | 147 |
554 Poverty in Poor Countries | 148 |
56 DEMOCRACY | 151 |
561 A Note on Liberty | 152 |
562 A Note on Political Parties | 153 |
563 Democracy and Imperialism | 155 |
57 ECOLOGY | 156 |
Getting from Here to There | 161 |
62 AN ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY REFORM AGENDA | 167 |
621 The Extension and Deepening of Workplace Democracy | 168 |
623 Toward Fair Trade | 170 |
631 Radical Quick | 171 |
632 Once MoreThis Time with Feeling for the Stockholders | 173 |
64 A NEW COMMUNISM? | 177 |
Bibliography | 181 |
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