Socialist optimism : an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century / Paul Auerbach.
Paul Auerbach's Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century. Present-day capitalism has generated growing inequality of income and wealth, persistent high levels of unemployment and ever-diminishing prospects for young people. But in the absence of a...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- PART I: Socialism and Central Planning
- Introduction to Part I
- 1. Planning and Spontaneous Order
- 2. The Giant Firm and the Plan
- 3. Technocratic Planning and the Emergence of a Socialist Orthodoxy
- 4. Socialist Theory and Practice
- 5. Ironies of History: Markets, Planning and Competition
- PART II: Human and Economic Development
- Introduction to Part II
- 6. Education and Economic Growth: The Statistical and Historical Record
- 7. Education as a Social Process
- 8. The Working and Living Environment
- 9. The US as Exemplar and Paradigm
- 10. Economic Growth and Inequality
- PART III Socialism and Human Possibilities
- Introduction to Part III
- 11. Education in a Free Society
- 12. Equality and Democratic Control
- Conclusion Bibliography.