| Description |
xiv, 301 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Capitalism versus Socialism: An Analytical Perspective. Defining the Terms. The Nature of the Dispute. Criticizing Economic Systems. Defending Economic Systems. Resolution and Progress in the Dispute -- 2. Why Market Socialism? Motivating the Market. Social Ownership in a Market Economy. The Motivations for Social Ownership -- 3. Economic Exploitation. Exploitation as the Failure of Reciprocity. The Value of One's Contribution. Fair Exchanges and the Value of One's Contribution. The Question of Alternatives -- 4. Exploitation and the Economics of Organizations. Comparing Types of Economic Systems. The Foundations of the Economics of Organizations. An Illustration: The Classical Capitalist Firm. The Empirical Preconditions for Exploitation. Opportunism, Appropriable Quasi-Rents, and Exploitative Exchange -- 5. Transactions Cost Efficiencies of Capitalist Organizations. Some Methodological Considerations. The Classical Capitalist Firm Revisited. The Open Corporation |
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The Employment Relation in a Free Enterprise System -- 6. Exploitation in a Market Socialist Economy I. More Methodological Considerations. Exploitation among and by the Residual Claimants in the Cooperative. Other Forms of Exploitation in the Small-to-Medium-sized Cooperative -- 7. Exploitation in a Market Socialist Economy II. Exploitation in and through the Large Cooperative. Exploitation through State Organizations -- 8. Other Options for Market Socialism? Equity Ownership and Market Socialism. Other Forms of Ownership and Market Socialism. The Socialist Vision of the Good Society |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-291) and index |
| Subject |
Marxian economics.
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Mixed economy.
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Socialism.
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| LC no. |
93031714 |
| ISBN |
0195088271 (alk. paper) |
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