Paul Auerbach

Socialist Optimism

An Alternative Political Economy for the Twenty-First Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century - a rigorous, detailed blueprint focused upon the education and upbringing of children in the context of social equality and household security. It gives a unity and direction to progressive policies that are otherwise seen to be a form of pragmatic tinkering.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-56394-1
• 1st ed. 2016
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 801g
• ISBN-13: 9781137563941
• ISBN-10: 113756394X
• Artikelnr.: 44037616

Autorenporträt

Paul Auerbach received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, USA, and has been Reader in Economics at Kingston University, UK, since 1990. He has published work in academic journals such as the Journal of Economic Surveys and the Journal of Economic Issues as well as the New Left Review, and is the author of Competition: The Economics of Industrial Change (1988). His research interests include the measurement of economic growth, the economics of competition, and the relationship between education and economic development.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction

PART I: Socialism and Central Planning
Introduction to Part I
1. Planning and Spontaneous Order
2. The Giant Firm and the Plan
3. Technocratic Planning and the Emergence of a Socialist Orthodoxy
4. Socialist Theory and Practice
5. Ironies of History: Markets, Planning and Competition

PART II: Human and Economic Development
Introduction to Part II
6. Education and Economic Growth: The Statistical and Historical Record
7. Education as a Social Process
8. The Working and Living Environment
9. The US as Exemplar and Paradigm
10. Economic Growth and Inequality

PART III: Socialism and Human Possibilities
Introduction to Part III
11. Education in a Free Society
12. Equality and Democratic Control

Conclusion
Bibliography

Rezensionen

"Auerbach (Kingston Univ., UK) begins with a blunt description of present-day capitalism as a system of instability and dysfunction, producing inequality, unemployment, and diminishing prospects. Socialist Optimism offers an alternative vision for the future, one that rejects free-market neoliberalism, Keynesian managed capitalism, and traditional concepts of socialism as central planning. ... It offers a pathway into the future that is both possible and profoundly transformative. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." (R. Hudelson, Choice, Vol. 54 (3), November, 2016)