Alternatives to Capitalism

Book Overview

The essays in this provocative collection survey and assess institutional arrangements that could be alternatives to capitalism as it exists today. The agreed point of departure among the contributors is that on the one hand, capitalism leads to unemployment, a lack of autonomy in the workplace, and massive income inequalities; while on the other hand, central socialist planning is characterized by underemployment, inefficiency, and bureaucracy. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052137815X
• ISBN13: 9780521378154
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 8.4"