Producer Cooperatives As a New Mode of Production

List of contents

1. Marx, Lenin and the Cooperative Movement 2. Is Marxism Compatible with Modern Economic Theory? 3. The Problem of Investment Funding in Labour-Managed Firms 4. Under-Investment in Labour-Managed Firms 5. Alchian and Demsetz’s Critique of Labour-Managed Firms 6. On the Rational Organisation of Labour-Managed Firms 7. An In-Depth Analysis of the Advantages of Democratic Firms 8. Labour-Managed Firms and Unemployment 9. Alienation in a Self-Managed Firm System 10. The Democratic Firm as a Merit Good 11. The Democratic Road to Socialism and Marxist Thought 12. Gramsci and the Transition to Socialism 13. The Key Contradiction in Capitalist Systems 14. A Democratic Firms System as the True Socialism 15. A System of Self-Managed Firms as a New Perspective on Marxism 16. Conclusion

About the author

Bruno Jossa is retired Full Professor of Political Economy at the ‘Federico II’ University, Naples, Italy.

Summary

The core argument outlined in this book is that a well-organized system of producer cooperatives would give rise to a new mode of production and, ultimately, a genuinely socialist society by reversing the capitalist relation between capital and labour. The book concludes that self-management could take the place of central planning in Marxist visions for the future.

Product details

• Authors: Bruno Jossa, Jossa Bruno
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2014
• EAN: 9780415719889
• ISBN: 978-0-415-71988-9
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Labour / income economics, Economic theory & philosophy, Labour Economics, Political Economy, Economics of industrial organisation, Economic theory and philosophy, Economics of industrial organization