Alternatives to Capitalism Elster Moene Paperback Cambridge University Press

Name: Alternatives to Capitalism Elster Moene Paperback Cambridge University Press
Brand: Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Alternatives to CapitalismAuthor(s): Jon Elster, Karl O. Moene\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521378154, 978-0521378154\nSynopsis\nThe essays in this provocative collection survey and assess institutional arrangements that offer possible alternatives to capitalism as it exists today. The point of departure agreed upon by the contributors is that on the one hand, capitalism produces unemployment, a lack of autonomy in the workplace, and massive income inequalities; while on the other, central socialist planning is characterized by underemployment, inefficiency, and bureaucracy. In Part I of the volume, various alternatives are proposed: profit-sharing systems, capitalism combined with some central planning, worker-owned firms in a market economy into a centrally planned economy, as has occurred recently in Hungary. Part II provides a theoretical analysis and assessment of these systems. This .