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Varieties of alternative economic systems :

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Varieties of alternative economic systems :

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practical utopias for an age of global crisis and austerity /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Richard Westra, Robert Albritton and Seongjin Jeong.

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London :

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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017.

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1 online resource (xiii, 223 pages) :

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illustrations

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Routledge frontiers of political economy ;

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229

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction to practical utopias; Capitalism in crisis; Socialism and environmentalism; Notes; References; Part I: Socialism and ecology; Chapter 2: Radical social democracy: a phase of transition to democratic socialism; Post-capitalist society; A different socialism; Modes of transition; Agents of transformation; Preparing for the transition; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Ecosocialism for a new era; A new era?; A new organic crisis?

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An ecosocialist society: sketch of a future utopiaAcknowledgements; References; Chapter 4: The practical utopia of ecological community; Introduction; Method: historical institutionalism; History; Impact of financial vision; Periodization; New vision: one earth; Context of existing global compacts; Vision; New model for "economic development"; New model for the state; New communities, new values; Reintegration of household, agriculture, and commodity production; Redesign of human settlement patterns; New economic knowledge; New state forms and global governance; Conclusion; References.

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Chapter 5: Soviet planning and the labor-time calculation model: implications for 21st-century socialismIntroduction; Marx's planning based on labor-time calculation; Lenin's Concept of Planning; Trial of labor-time calculation planning during War Communism; New Economic Policy and the struggle for planning; Suppression of Marxian planning under the Stalinist administrative command economy; Practices of planning based on labor-time calculation: material balances and input-output tables; Implications for socialism for the 21st century; Notes; References.

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Chapter 8: Alternative principles of labor: liberation from labor and liberation through workIntroduction; Marx's labor and estranged labor; Two alternatives; Alternative principles of labor; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 9: Building a (very) new road to socialism? Cuba in the 21st century; Why the updating was necessary; Central changes in how the Cuban economy operates as a result of the reforms; Relation of Cuba's economic reforms to its process of building socialism; Conclusion; Notes; References.

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Part II: Positive practicalities: leaping aheadChapter 6: Provisioning under austerity: an evolutionary strategy for meeting human needs through the next millennium; Care work as a necessary impurity in capitalism and post-capitalism; Provisioning and post-familialism; Notes; References; Chapter 7: World government is a necessity; Introduction; Some problems that require global attention; A world of peaceful nation-states?; High finance creates low life; Basic incomes and property; Conclusions; Notes; References.

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In this age of overlapping and mutually reinforcing deep global crises (financial convulsions, global warming, mass migrations, militarism, inequality, selfish nation-states, etc.), there needs to be more realistic dialogue about radical alternatives to the status quo. Most literature produced heretofore has focused on the surface causes of these crises without much attention given to the sorts of major societal changes needed in order to deal with the crises we face. This book moves the debate beyond the critiques and the false or not fully realised alternatives, to focus on what can be termed "practical utopias". The contributors to this book outline a range of practical proposals for constructing pathways out of the global economic, ecological and social crisis. Varieties of Alternative Economic Systems eschews a single blueprint but insists on dealing directly with the deep structural problems and contradictions of contemporary global capitalism. It provides a diverse array of complementary proposals and perspectives that can inform both theoretical thinking and practical action. This volume will be of interest to academics and students who study political science, ecological economics, international politics and socialism. --

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1016777

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9781315397337

Capitalism-- Social aspects.

Economics-- Sociological aspects.

Socialism.

Utopias.

Alternative Wirtschaft

Capitalism-- Social aspects.

Economics-- Sociological aspects.

Ökosozialismus

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Ideologies-- Communism & Socialism.

Socialism.

Utopias.

Utopie

POL-- 005000

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Albritton, Robert,1941-

Jeong, Seongjin

Westra, Richard,1954-

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20200822161455.0

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