Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 11:17:25 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us> Subject: Alternatives to Capitalism Mann asks for some references on alternatives to capitalism. A nice place to survey some alternatives is in the special issue of the Review of radical Political Economics (Fall-Winter 1992) on The Future of Socialism. This has accessible articles by Albert and Hahnel and Pat Devine defending planning alternatives and Dave Schweickart and Tom Weisskopf defending market alternatives. Schweickart's Against Capitalism (Cambridge, 1994) is the place to look for a defense of labor-managed market socialism. John Roemer's "public ownership" model is set forth in his A Future for Socialism (Harvard 1994). Albert and Hahnel explain their participatory planning model in The Political Economy of Participatory Economics (Princeton 1991) and Looking Forward (South End Press 1991). I have an edited collection on this stuff forthcoming from Humanities, but it's not out yet, will be later this year. It's called Beyond Communism and Capitalism. Mann also might look at the empirical experience on Mondragon, e.g., in Whyte and Whyte, making Mondragon (Cornell ILR Press), Thomas and Logan, Mondragon: An Economic Analysis, and a book the author of which I forget called We Build the Road As We Travel. --Justin Schwartz ------------------
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