Andrew Cumbers is Professor in Regional Political Economy at the University of Glasgow

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• Introduction The economic roots of the democratic crisisThe retreat from democratic scrutiny in economic policyMaking the case for economic democracy in the twenty-first centuryNotes1 A Brief History of Economic Democracy as Industrial DemocracyIntroductionStruggles for economic democracy in the nineteenth centuryThe growth of a social democratic labour politics in the twentieth centuryThe Meidner Plan and the high tide of twentieth-century social democracyThe convenient fiction of Thatcher’s property-owning democracy‘Stale, male and pale’: the exclusions of twentieth-century industrial democracyConclusionNotes2 The Three Pillars of Economic DemocracyIndividual economic rights and self-governmentDemocratic, collective and diverse public ownershipCreating a deliberative and participatory economic democracyConclusionNotes3 Putting Economic Democracy into PracticeInstitutions for implementing individual self-governance and economic freedomEmergent tendencies in democratic collective ownershipPractising participatory economic decision makingConclusionNotesConclusionConstructing the democratic economyA summary of the main arguments and their policy implicationsMobilizing for economic democracyNotesReferences

Andrew Cumbers is Professor in Regional Political Economy at the University of Glasgow

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• Introduction The economic roots of the democratic crisisThe retreat from democratic scrutiny in economic policyMaking the case for economic democracy in the twenty-first centuryNotes1 A Brief History of Economic Democracy as Industrial DemocracyIntroductionStruggles for economic democracy in the nineteenth centuryThe growth of a social democratic labour politics in the twentieth centuryThe Meidner Plan and the high tide of twentieth-century social democracyThe convenient fiction of Thatcher’s property-owning democracy‘Stale, male and pale’: the exclusions of twentieth-century industrial democracyConclusionNotes2 The Three Pillars of Economic DemocracyIndividual economic rights and self-governmentDemocratic, collective and diverse public ownershipCreating a deliberative and participatory economic democracyConclusionNotes3 Putting Economic Democracy into PracticeInstitutions for implementing individual self-governance and economic freedomEmergent tendencies in democratic collective ownershipPractising participatory economic decision makingConclusionNotesConclusionConstructing the democratic economyA summary of the main arguments and their policy implicationsMobilizing for economic democracyNotesReferences