Socialist Optimism

An Alternative Political Economy for the Twenty-First Century
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-56394-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 522 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 7673 g

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 positive vision of how society and the economy might develop in the future, the present trajectory of capitalism will never be derailed, no matter how acute the critique of present-day developments.

The detailed blueprint presented here focuses upon the education and upbringing of children in the context of social equality and household security. It yields a well-defined path to human development and liberation, as well as democratic control of working life and public affairs. Socialism as human development gives a unity and direction to progressive policies that are otherwise seen to be a form of pragmatic tinkering in the context of a pervasive capitalist reality.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Auerbach, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Auerbach received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, USA, and has been Reader in Economics at Kingston University, UK, since 1990. He has published work in academic journals such as the and the as well as the ,and is the author of Competition: The Economics of Industrial Change (1988). His research interests include the measurement of economic growth, the economics of competition, and the relationship between education and economic development.