Real Utopias Project – serie
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16 produkter
Envisioning Real Utopias
Häftad, 2010
394 kr
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Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task-most analysts argue that any attempt to rethink our social and economic relations is …
Legislature by Lot
Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance
Av Erik Olin Wright, John Gastil
Häftad, 2019
326 kr
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Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class. The gap between the public and its public officials might seem unbridgeable in the modern world, but Legislature by Lot presents a close examination of an inspiring …
Legislature by Lot
Transformative Designs for Deliberative Governance
Av Erik Olin Wright, John Gastil
E-bok, 2019
234 kr
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Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class. The gap between the public and its public officials might seem unbridgeable in the modern world, but Legislature by Lot presents a close examination of an inspiring …
Envisioning Real Utopias
E-bok, 2020
174 kr
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Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task-most analysts argue that any attempt to rethink our social and economic relations is …
Redesigning Distribution
Basic Income and Stakeholder Grants as Cornerstones for an Egalitarian Capitalism
Av Anne Alstott, Bruce Ackerman m. fl.
E-bok, 2020
179 kr
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Volume V in the acclaimed Real Utopias Project series, edited by Erik Olin Wright. Are there ways that contemporary capitalism can be rendered a dramatically more egalitarian economic system without destroying its productivity and capacity for growth? This book explores two proposals, unconditional …
Gender Equality
Transforming Family Divisions of Labor
Av Janet C Gornick, Marcia K Meyers
E-bok, 2020
260 kr
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In the labor market and workplace, anti-discrimination rules, affirmative action policies, and pay equity procedures exercise a direct effect on gender relations. But what can be done to influence the ways that men and women allocate tasks and responsibilities at home? In Gender Equality , Volume …
Democratizing the Corporation
The Bicameral Firm and Beyond
Av Isabelle Ferreras, Tom Malleson m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
303 kr
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Although contemporary Western societies refer to themselves as "democratic," the bulk of the population spend much of their lives in workplaces that have more in common with tyranny. Gigantic corporations such as Amazon, Meta, Exxon, and Walmart are among the richest and most powerful institutions …
Democratizing the Corporation
The Bicameral Firm and Beyond
Av Isabelle Ferreras, Tom Malleson m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
260 kr
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Although contemporary Western societies refer to themselves as "democratic," the bulk of the population spend much of their lives in workplaces that have more in common with tyranny. Gigantic corporations such as Amazon, Meta, Exxon, and Walmart are among the richest and most powerful institutions …
Democratizing Finance
Restructuring Credit to Transform Society
Häftad, 2022
302 kr
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What if our financial system were organized to the benefit of the many rather than simply empowering the few? Robert Hockett and Fred Block argue that an entirely different financial system is both desirable and possible. They outline concrete steps that could get us there. Financial systems move …
Democratizing Finance
Restructuring Credit to Transform Society
E-bok, 2022
174 kr
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What if our financial system were organized to the benefit of the many rather than simply empowering the few? Robert Hockett and Fred Block argue that an entirely different financial system is both desirable and possible. They outline concrete steps that could get us there. Financial systems move …
Gender Equality
Transforming Family Divisions of Labor
Av Janet C Gornick, Marcia K Meyers
Häftad, 2009
521 kr
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In the labor market and workplace, anti-discrimination rules, affirmative action policies, and pay equity procedures exercise a direct effect on gender relations. But what can be done to influence the ways that men and women allocate tasks and responsibilities at home?In Gender Equality, Volume VI …
Redesigning Distribution
Basic Income and Stakeholder Grants as Cornerstones for an Egalitarian Capitalism
Av Anne Alstott, Bruce Ackerman m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
385 kr
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Volume V in the acclaimed Real Utopias Project series, edited by Erik Olin Wright.Are there ways that contemporary capitalism can be rendered a dramatically more egalitarian economic system without destroying its productivity and capacity for growth?This book explores two proposals, unconditional …
Associations and Democracy
The Real Utopias Project, Vol. 1
Av Joshua Cohen, Joel Rogers m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
423 kr
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Throughout the West, democracy is under fire. "Government is part of the problem, not the solution" is a common refrain. As the tasks of the state become more complex and the size of polities larger, the institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the 19th century seem increasingly unable …
Equal Shares
Making Market Socialism Work
Av John E Roemer, Erik Olin Wright
Häftad, 1996
315 kr
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"Nice idea, but it doesn't work in practice." How often have socialists had this claim thrown back at them? And now, after the events of 1989, many of the Left are openly wondering what a defensible idea of socialism would be. This work addresses this question, taking as its point of departure John …
Recasting Egalitarianism
New Rules for Communities, States and Markets
Av Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
265 kr
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In Recasting Egalitarianism, part of Verso's Real Utopias series, economists Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis diagnose the current malaise of the Left as a result of the obsolescence of its traditional economic models. They propose to rejuvenate the egalitarian project through a strategy of …
Deepening Democracy
Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance
Av Archon Fung, Erik Olin Wright
Häftad, 2003
374 kr
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The institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the nineteenth century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the twenty-first. This dilemma has given rise in some places to a new, deliberative democracy, and this volume explores four contemporary empirical cases in which …
