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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Preface to Economic Democracy (Quantum Books)di Robert Alan Dahl
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A fairly interesting presentation of an idea which seems to be affiliated with traditional Marxism: workers should govern the enterprises for which they work. The author argues that this would greatly reduce the economic inequalities caused by private ownership and unaccountable management. But maybe he has strayed a bit too far from his area of expertise with this book since there are many obvious counter-arguments which he fails to consider. For one thing, there would be no incentive for anyone to start a new enterprise if he would immediately have to surrender its control to the people he hires. I'll admit that the argument stimulates the imagination a little bit but it's still very unsatisfactory to anyone who knows even a little bit of economics. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Tocqueville pessimistically predicted that liberty and equality would be incompatible ideas. Robert Dahl, author of the classic A Preface to Democratic Theory, explores this alleged conflict, particularly in modern American society where differences in ownership and control of corporate enterprises create inequalities in resources among Americans that in turn generate inequality among them as citizens. Arguing that Americans have misconceived the relation between democracy, private property, and the economic order, the author contends that we can achieve a society of real democracy and political equality without sacrificing liberty by extending democratic principles into the economic order. Although enterprise control by workers violates many conventional political and ideological assumptions of corporate capitalism as well as of state socialism. Dahl presents an empirically informed and philosophically acute defense of "workplace democracy." He argues, in the light of experiences here and abroad, that an economic system of worker-owned and worker-controlled enterprises could provide a much better foundation for democracy, political equality, and liberty than does our present system of corporate capitalism. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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