After Occupy
Subtitle: Economic Democracy for the 21st Century
By: Tom Malleson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 2, 2014
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780199330102
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Economic aspects; Socialism; Equality; Democracy
Description: "These days, it is easy to be cynical about democracy. Even though there are more democratic societies now (119 and counting) than ever before, skeptics can point to low turnouts in national elections, the degree to which money corrupts the process, and the difficulties of mass participation in complex systems as just a few reasons why the system is flawed. The Occupy movement in 2011 proved that there is an emphatic dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs, particularly with the economy, but, ultimately, it failed to produce any coherent vision for social change. So what should progressives be working toward? What should the economic vision be for the 21st century?"--book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Economic Democracy: Beginning Orientations; title: Should Workplaces be Democratized?; title: Worker Cooperatives in Practice; title: Democracy and the Market System; title: Democratizing the Market System; title: Should Finance and Investment be Democratized?; title: Finance and Investment Democracy in Practice: Capital Controls, Public Banks, and Participatory Budgeting; title: Towards a Feasible Socialism for the 21st Century.