Alternatives to Capitalism, JOn Elster / Karl Ove Moene
Paperback, 188 pages
Published May 26th 1989 by Cambridge University Press
The essays in this provocative collection survey and assess institutional arrangements that could be alternatives to capitalism as it exists today. The agreed point of departure among the contributors is that on the one hand, capitalism leads to unemployment, a lack of autonomy in the workplace, and massive income inequalities; while on the other hand, central socialist planning is characterized by underemployment, inefficiency, and bureaucracy. In Part I, various alternatives are proposed: profit-sharing systems, capitalism combined with some central planning, worker-owned firms in a market economy, or the introduction of the elements of market economy into a centrally planned economy as has occurred recently in Hungary. Part II provides a theoretical analysis and assessment of these systems.
Kapitalizam, socijalizam, marksizam, privatno vlasništvo, jednakost, tržište i unije, profit-sharing capitalism